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With financial support from AF&PA and FPAC, and considerable assistance from a working group of wood products experts from FPAC, AF&PA, and NCASI member companies, NCASI developed calculation tools for GHG emissions from wood product facilities. The tools include two versions of an Excel workbook that aids the user by automating the calculations - one version using measurement units familiar to US operations and another using units familiar to Canadian operations.

As with the pulp and paper tools, the calculation tools for wood products manufacturing facilities incorporate default approaches and emission factors which are consistent with guidance from the IPCC. These defaults can be overridden by companies as appropriate. The tools reflect many of the features of well known and widely accepted protocols such as the "GHG Protocol" issued by WRI/WBCSD, the "Climate Leaders Greenhouse Gas Inventory Protocol Core Module Guidance" issued by USEPA, and the "Challenge Registry Guide to Entity and Facility-Based Reporting" issued by VCR in Canada.

The accompanying report, GHG Calcultion Tools for Wood Products (Version 1.0) may also be downloaded from this page.

The compressed file immediately below contains all of the files listed.