The more intact a forest is, the more carbon it can naturally store as a carbon sink, which means it absorbs more carbon than it releases.
As part of this report, Canada measures emissions from its “managed” forests, which means lands where human interventions take place, according to standards set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Forests can help mitigate climate change by storing carbon if they are healthy, but if they are impacted by wildfire, insects and disease, they can release more carbon than they store.
“The best thing we can do is log less and protect a lot more.”Updated October 28, 2021 at 6:41 p.m.
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