New Nature paper: Yearly emissions from global wood consumption likely to avg 3.5-4.2 billion tons of CO2e for next three decades. Equals 10% of annual CO2 emissions. = deforestation from ag. But mostly ignored by science & policy. Consump to grow 54%.
nature.com/articles/s4158… Emissions depend on different scenarios of wood supply and use for energy. Emissions mostly ignored because many LCAs and sci. papers incorrectly net effects of new harvests against growing forests elsewhere. They would grow anyway so does not reduce effect of new harvests.

WRI has a paper out today comparing GHG cost of pork and dairy across countries. Costs include the lost carbon storage on ag land used. Land use costs are dominant, so one lesson: Reducing the amount of land used really matters! wri.org/publication/co… Another lesson: Both pork emissions and dairy emissions across developed agricultural countries are pretty similar. Only 9% difference in emissions across pork of 8 of 11 countries analyzed. So getting big reductions in the future requires innovations. wri.org/publication/co…