Heading into this month’s COP26 summit on climate, his assignment was to explore opportunities to partner with the federal government to plant more trees as a way to restore lands that absorb more carbon than they emit into the atmosphere.
That looks better, but only because the province does not include the GHG emissions caused by wildfires in its inventory.
Canada has a rich store of natural carbon sinks, which take up some of the carbon dioxide emitted by burning fossil fuels.
as a result of fires, clear-cut logging, and the other impacts of climate change,” said Shane Moffatt, head of Greenpeace Canada’s nature and food campaign.
“The scientific case for using forests as an excuse to keep pumping out greenhouse gas emissions would be a disaster for Canada’s climate ambitions, and is no solution to global biodiversity loss,” Mr. Moffatt said in an interview.
“Canada is well aware of the important role that that forests play in sequestering carbon.