‘Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s …
WEBSep 7, 2024 · Canada’s forests – accounting for 9% of the world’s total – are considered critical to containing global warming. Environmental advocates have long pushed to end logging in primary or...
Canada’s Overdue Reckoning with Unsustainable Logging - NRDC
WEBDec 22, 2022 · Canada remains willfully blind to one of its most significant drivers of biodiversity loss and climate change: industrial logging....
Why scientists say Canada's logging industry produces far more ...
WEBJan 16, 2024 · Canada's forestry sector is responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than show up in official tallies, a new study suggests, underscoring concerns about how a lack of industry...
Scientists Urge Canada to End Primary Forest Logging - NRDC
WEBMar 23, 2022 · As a recent report from NRDC and Canadian partners found, through a number of accounting flaws, loopholes, and artifices, Canada is downplaying the logging industry’s annual carbon footprint...
Canada’s Boreal Forests Badly Damaged by Logging - The New York Times
WEBJan 4, 2024 · A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions.
Logging is the 3rd highest emitter in Canada. It should be …
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Carbon emissions from logging would be the third highest emitting sector of Canada's economy, if the federal government reported them out separately, according to a new report from groups ...
Industrial logging is Canada’s hidden climate problem
WEBOct 31, 2022 · Logging in Canada is a climate polluter at least on par with oil sands operations. That is the main finding of a new report, Lost in the Woods, which calculates for the first time, using the federal government data, the net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with logging in Canada.
WEBlogging industry leaves a vast carbon source unmitigated. Canada’s commitments concerning protected areas and nature-based climate solutions are promising indicators of the federal government’s intentions, and the nation is well placed to reform current industrial forestry practices to be consistent with needed climate action and biodiversity
Canada needs to close the “logging loophole” in its boreal forest
WEBAug 24, 2020 · A “logging loophole” is jeopardizing Canada’s global climate commitments, allowing the logging industry to escape scrutiny and regulation for impact on the climate-critical boreal forest. The boreal forest is a global climate linchpin, storing twice as much carbon as the world’s oil reserves.
Canada Continues to Underestimate Emissions from Logging in …
WEBMay 3, 2024 · In its 2024 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, released yesterday, Canada has continued its longstanding practice of downplaying the logging industry’s role in driving the climate crisis. Amid a growing chorus of scientists, policymakers, and civil society organizations calling for Canada to transparently report emissions from logging, the ...
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