Conceptual lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for wood pellets produced in New Zealand and exported to Japan

New Zealand has approximately 1.7 million hectares of productive plantation area, with more than half having FSC certification and approximately a third having PEFC certification. The Central North Island has the highest concentration of plantation forests, containing a third of all plantation forests in the country.

New Zealand-made wood pellets/briquettes exported to Japan (either white or torrefied), can achieve 88-90% lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal, based on lifecycle emissions data from the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED II).