: Fight Climate Change by Turning Buildings into Carbon Sinks with Timber Bamboo
This paper is quite enlightening, and brings hope. Yet how long will it take for people to really take notice and act as if our lives depend on it? It is imperative we decarbonize as soon as possible.
Hal Hinkle, CEO of BamCore and Founder of World Bamboo Foundation, says, "Timber Bamboo Can Make an Immediate “Green Down Payment” to Decarbonize Buildings in the Decisive Decade. Given the speed of growth, profit opportunity, land-use efficiency, and strength advantages, timber bamboo is uniquely positioned to help humanity make a vital “green down payment” on our need to remove carbon from the atmosphere in the immediate future. We accept that all the options in the carbon removal portfolio are important to explore in the long run. But we can’t get to the long run unless we can navigate around the climate tipping points. This means our focus must not be just on the tantalizing high-technology, geo-engineering solutions until after we know we can navigate around the tipping points....
"...So, why isn’t more being done to advance forestation with harvested wood products, especially with timber bamboo?
"...Afforestation and reforestation are often categories for carbon credit programs that subsidize the forest’s carbon offset. Bamboo afforestation is almost always ignored as a possible source of carbon credits. But we need the structural fiber and it’s more efficient to fight climate change with timber bamboo fiber than wood. If forestation carbon credit programs were re- structured to include timber bamboo and the captured carbon that is ultimately sequestered in buildings, then timber bamboo could drive a powerful, useful, and profitable way to farm carbon efficiently while also making an immediate “green down payment” on carbon removal.
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