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BC Forest Wake-Up Call: Heavy Carbon Losses Hit 10-Year Mark

June 22, 2015/in Jens Wieting, Publications and Reports /by Sierra Club

For a full decade, B.C. forests have been releasing dramatically more carbon into the atmosphere than they have absorbed out of the atmosphere. B.C.’s forests emitted 256 million tonnes of carbon dioxide during the period 2003 – 2012. In contrast, B.C.’s forests absorbed 441 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from 1993 to 2002.This is the key finding of a Sierra Club BC analysis of B.C. government forest carbon emissions data.

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