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Robert Sanscartier Sep 7, 2024

‘Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s climate-fighting forests

Nonprofit environment watchdogs put their stamps of approval on countless wood products that get touted as responsibly produced. But Reuters found that the timber firms these groups certify are harvesting large swaths of Canada’s older forests, which are critical to containing global warming

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/canada-forests-climate/

#canada #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #environment #climate

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@Snoro

Bottom line: some Canadian provinces managed to cut down over half of their >100 year old forests. Over the last 20 years. 😳

The industry-controlled, widely used certificate for sustainable wood (globally PEFC, in North America SRI) has almost no value.
And the other important certificate, FSC, was also very much watered down by industry efforts.

This sucks, and is another example that voluntary certificates and other capitalism-friendly tools frequently don't work in the long run.

#Forest #Wood #WoodIndustry #Logging #Forestry #FSC #PEFC