Net change in forest carbon stock

Unit

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: Change in metric tonnes of carbon (Δt C), Change in metric tonnes of carbon per hectare (Δt C/ha) (of owned, leased or managed area)

Indicator

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: Carbon sequestration and storage

Metric type

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: State

Framework alignment notes

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TNFD Forest, Pulp and Paper C5.0
PEFC 8.1 Maintenance or appropriate enhancement of forest resources and their contribution to the global carbon cycle
GRI 101-8
ESRS E4-5
CDP Forests F1.6 Has your organization experienced any detrimental forests-related impacts?
SBTN: Land 1.13 Soil Organic Carbon
ITTO Africa SFMI Indicator 1.1.13: National forest policies take into account the potential value of the carbon storage functions of forests
Boreal SFMI 5.1 – Total forest ecosystem biomass and carbon pool, and changes over time
FSC 6.1 The Organization shall assess environmental values in the Management Unit and those values outside the Management Unit potentially affected by management activities. Assessments shall include landscape-level considerations as well as the impacts of the management activities
CCFM SFMI 4.1.1 Net change in forest ecosystem carbon

Target example
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[Company name] will implement measures to promote [maintenance or increase] of the forest carbon stock in [target location(s)] by [target amount, in absolute t C, t C/ha, or percentage] by [target date], compared to a [baseline year] baseline.

Target source: WBCSD target template

Sector

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Forest

Value chain stage

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Raw Materials

Metric assessment

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Relevance: Medium

Feasibility: Medium

Additional information

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Biome

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: Tropical, Temperate, Boreal

Type of Forest

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: Plantation, Other Planted forest, Semi-natural forest, Naturally regenerative managed forest

Scale

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: Forest stand, Forest management unit (FMU), Landscape

Related actions

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Description

Value chain stage

Raw Materials

Sector of stage operator

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How the action applies

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Description

Value chain stage

Raw Materials

Sector of stage operator

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How the action applies

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