Annex: Emissions from wood pellet use for energy
A1. Emissions from pellet combustion. Calculations of emissions of CO₂ per weight of wood pellets in national reports to the UNFCCC vary. In its 2012 report, for example, the UK used the figure of 381.4 kg of carbon (1,400 kg CO₂) emitted per tonne of wood biomass (based on IPCC guidance from 1997), 113 whereas in its 2014 report, it used figures of …