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ArticleNature communications2025

Global land and carbon consequences of mass timber products.

Kai Lan, Alice Favero, Yuan Yao, Robert O Mendelsohn, Hannah Szu-Han Wang

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kai Lan *Center for Industrial Ecology, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-6326
Alice Favero *RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2092-6711
Yuan YaoCenter for Industrial Ecology, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. y.yao@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9359-2030
Robert O MendelsohnYale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. robert.mendelsohn@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3650-6201
Hannah Szu-Han WangCenter for Industrial Ecology, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mass timber products can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing steel and cement. However, the increase in wood demand raises wood prices, and the environmental consequences of these market changes are unclear. Here we investigate the global carbon and land use impacts of adopting mass timber products, focusing on cross-laminated timber as a case study. Our results show that higher wood prices reduce the production of traditional wood products but expand productive forestland by 30.7-36.5 million hectares from 2020 to 2100 and lead to more intensive forest management. If the cumulative global cross-laminated timber production reaches 3.6 to 9.6 billion m

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PMCPMC12106697

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