**3.5 Tropical forestry and the certification of HWP: CDR**

As the world will face, in the next few decades, further increase in global population and economic output resulting on large new demands for food, fuel and fiber, this stresses the importance of developing improved practices for sustainable intensification of land use. Production of CDR from increasing forest and HWP atmospheric CO2 removals, at the same, copes with reducing emissions targets, which makes it a highly competitive credit for global carbon markets. CDR production also represents a significant opportunity to private investors on engaging in Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) activities and into the international carbon markets. Registered carbon credits can supply an income source for landowners, support rural development and facilitate IFM implementation. Logs produced to supply industries with sustainable sources can receive payments directed to improve technology of silviculture, trade and finance towards inclusion of payments for carbon credits. When tropical timber used by society comes from sustainable origins, it increases forestlands atmospheric CO2 removal capacity.

Production and consumption of tropical timbers need to be within the framework of accepted CDR for global carbon Market development within countries 'National

<sup>44</sup> "Tackle Climate Change: Use Wood" is a European Parliament program directed to strength societal use of wood as a way of fighting atmospheric CO2 accumulation. France has "de Bois-Construction-Environment", England the "Wood for Good", Netherlands "Centrum Hout", Denmark "Trae Information", Finland "Puuinfo", Belgium "Wood Forum", Spain's "Viver Con Madera", Australia "Wood Naturally Better" and Austria and Italy "Promo Legno" are few from national, binational and multilateral networks for the promotion of wood use as a form of global climate change mitigation.

Determined Contribution (NDC) to UNFCCC. Countries around the globe could include tropical timber products as CDRs and purchase these credits as part of the acceptable contributions—Internationally Tradeable Mitigation Opportunities (ITMO) to alter forest degradation and land use change. With Tropical HWP accepted as CDR, global carbon markets can promote increasing carbon stocks within society as a way to reduce global GHG emissions (from cement, iron etc.) while increasing removal of atmospheric CO2 at the same time. The more tropical timber is sustainably consumed, the better the potentials for the climate. The same goes for all tropical agriculture and pastures products, which are carbon-based products resulting from up-take of atmospheric CO2 and its conversion into useful goods for humanity.

The Bio-economy of Brazilian Amazon ecosystems sustainable management rely on technological interventions. With investments directed to appropriate silvicultural technologies, national wood products from Brazilian native tropical timbers will be highly competitive at international Green Economy markets. Brazilian tropical timber species diversity, productivity and qualities being cultivated under contemporary silvicultural techniques are capable of placing native forest sector among world's greatest. Native forest species biodiversity cultivation ,contributed by the use of Brazilian woods, will be a direct result from consumption incentives. National regulations must incentivize the use and consumption of native timber from sustainable sources as a way of assuring the sustainability of forest biodiversity cultivation.

### **4. Conclusion**

Over the next decades, there will be an increase in the global biomass for biomass and GHG emissions` reduction and removals, and intensification of land use is the most promising solution—together with processing efficiency—for balancing HANPP consumption with NPP from atmospheric CO2 fertilization. Forest plantations, croplands, cultivated pastures, lianas, palms and other secondary vegetation have shown yield gains from CO2 fertilization, while trees respond somehow at first, losing the capacity afterwards.

There is evidence showcasing a path of native tropical forest degradation given atmospheric CO2 fertilization, which is mainly due to favoring secondary vegetation competitiveness against trees at un-managed standing stocks. Following the BAU scenario, tropical forest should become less and less covered with trees over the next century. An alternative IFM scenario is perceived, where IFM plus contemporary silvicultural techniques can reverse the process and produce HWP and NTFP as a result of land use intensification. This will generate additional atmospheric CO2 removals, certifiable as CDR goods, which are able to generate carbon credits for financing the reduction of secondary vegetation and promote cultivation of improved native tree species. These CDR credits can be included in tropical countries` NDC and presented at UNFCCC as an ITMO for fighting global climate change.
