Climafor | Carbon accounting tool

Climafor | Carbon accounting tool

FR
EN
SK
Climafor is a method and a software under development that allows the comparison of carbon balances from two silvicultural itineraries. It takes into account carbon sequestration in the forest, storage in wood products and the substitution effects generated by the use of wood (material or energy).

Taking into account the carbon issue in forest management is becoming more and more important in France, giving rise to research and development projects. The Climafor software responds to a challenge: to make carbon calculations easier to access and less time consuming. The data sources used (production tables, calculation coefficients) are now well known. Climafor integrates them into a single tool, which does not require any special training. The calculations are instantaneous and the results can be used directly in a forest carbon project. The calculations made by the software are based on production tables for each species and different coefficients from research. The software will be continuously improved by updating the different parameters and adding new tables. For the moment, it is being developed by the IDF (Institute of Forestry Development), the R&D branch of the CNPF.

Domain
Inventory, monitoring
Research and development
Keywords
Calculation carbon sylviculture software
Challenge addressed
1.- Improve forest resilience and adaption to climate change
Digital solution
No
Innovation
Yes
Country of origin
France
Scale of application
Local
Start and end year
2018 -
Contact data
Owner or author
Reporter
Henri Husson
References and Resources
Project under which this factsheet has been created
Rosewood 4.0