Any process, activity or mechanism which removes a greenhouse gas (GHG), an aerosol or a precursor of a GHG from the atmosphere. IPCC, 2019: Annex I: Glossary [Weyer, N.M...
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Secondary waste is waste generated from different sources and of different nature, i.e. waste generated in a process that is known as a waste treatment operation; it includes residual materials...
In this context residues can include: agricultural, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry residues, and processing residues. A processing residue is a substance that is not the end product(s) that a production process directly...
Any harvesting activity consisting of recovering timber that can still be used, at least in part, from lands affected by natural disturbances EU, 2013, Decision No...
Sawnwood is wood that has been produced either by sawing lengthways or by a profile-chipping process and, with a few exceptions, is greater than 6 millimetres (mm) in thickness. Eurostat b...
It includes forest industry by-products, bark, and recovered post-consumer wood. Camia A., Giuntoli, J., Jonsson, R., Robert, N., Cazzaniga, N.E., Jasinevičius...
Woody plantation system in which fast-growing tree or shrub species are planted in high density and coppiced in short harvesting cycles (2–8 years) at ground level...
Silvicultural practice in which fast-growing tree species are grown under intensive management. The most widely used species in SRF belong to the genera Eucalyptus, Populus...
Basic substances or mixtures of substances in an untreated state except for extraction and primary processing. In the broadest sense, these are: metal ores, non-metallic minerals, fossil fuels...
In the context of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 2019), LULUCF is a GHG inventory sector that covers...