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Total CO2 sink in harvested wood products, as reported in greenhouse gas inventory submission and the final greenhouse gas projections dataset. It is expressed in million tonnes CO2 equivalents and covers the EU27.

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The HWPs can be counted as additional of carbon sink in the GHG inventory, because the biomass loss due to harvest is already considered in the biomass of Forest Land.
Note that CO2 is released during combustion where there is a supply of woody biomass for energy.

  • EEA greenhouse gases - data viewer, European Environment Agency (EEA) (select the "sectors" tab / graph "trends by IPCC sectors in EU-27" /select "4.G. Harvested Wood Products")
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