Do this by using more harvested, plant-based materials that naturally sequester carbon like wood, hemp, straw, and cellulose. Through photosynthesis, plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it. CO2 is considered sequestered if it is kept from re-entering the atmosphere as a gas for a significant period of time.
To be a sustainable solution, the benefits of sequestration depend on good forestry practices that support greater biodiversity and ecosystem health. By using our forests as a building material resource, we can increase the rate of forest CO2 absorption in a regenerative process, and create a virtuous cycle of negative carbon emissions (Ryan et al. 2010).