Forestry has finally been recognized as a climate polluter: now what?

Acknowledging and reducing the ecological and climate impacts of logging is key to stemming the climate and biodiversity crises.

For years, the federal government has portrayed forestry to be carbon-neutral or even a small carbon sink, neglecting any role industrial logging plays in exacerbating the climate crisis, writes Michael Polanyi. Unsplash photograph by Jamie Morris

Opinion

BY MICHAEL POLANYI

June 5, 2024

In its recent greenhouse gas report to the United Nations, the federal government quietly corrected its long-standing portrait of forestry as a carbon-neutral industry, showing the sector is, in fact, a source of climate pollution.

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