Wood can help fight climate change - experts
Two Filipino forestry experts said yesterday using wood as construction material can help fight climate change.
"Wood - as long as it comes from tree plantations and not from natural forests - is the greenest among the construction materials available in the market," Florentino Tesoro and Rico Cabangon said in a statement.
"First, wood is renewable and recyclable. Second, it stores carbon, and third, producing lumber and other wood products emits carbon dioxide eight to 13 times less than producing cement or steel," they said.
Tesoro is a former under-secretary for research and development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). He is also a former director of the DOST’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI). [Read more…}
