Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MMRV)

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, AWC, and other partners to “codify the cooperation between the parties to collaborate in and to support the creation of a USDA-sponsored digital platform hosting numerous tools that provide transparent, high-integrity forest and wood product carbon data through the whole of the value chain.” Among the tools will be one for measuring embodied carbon using AWC’s updated EPDs, another will measure the substitution benefits of wood products compared to competing materials, and finally, a tool to facilitate the measurement of carbon in harvested wood products.
 
This MOU is an important industry collaboration that pushes forward our commitment to transparency and access to valuable industry data. USFS’s use of AWC’s EPDs establishes us as a key partner for data for USFS and the broader industry.