Le bois du Breuil

Socio-economic benefits

0.4FTE-years of forestry work mobilised over 30 years

This project mobilises about 0.4 years of full-time forestry work (between 0.3 and 0.7), spread over the project’s 30 years.

Forestry work on the plot (planting, weeding, cleaning, pruning)

0.4 FTE-years (between 0.3 and 0.6)

Verification audit (Stock CO₂ data)

36 hours

Timber harvesting during the project (first thinnings, up to 30 years)

22 hours (between 10 and 56)

Growing the plants in forest nurseries

not quantified (no published source)

Timber harvesting at term (later thinnings and final felling, beyond the 30 years, around age 126), not included above

0.3 FTE-years (between 0.2 and 0.5)

Total including timber harvesting at term

0.7 FTE-years (between 0.5 and 1.2)

Method: planted area × working hours per hectare published by the ONF (technical itineraries 2011-2015), over the project’s 30 years; audit: 5 to 10 days depending on area (Stock CO₂ data); harvesting: harvested volumes (ONF, Fournier et al. 2022) × harvester and forwarder productivity (FCBA 2005); ÷ 1,607 h, the French statutory annual working time; nurseries not quantified; Stock CO2 estimate.