Blogposts tagged 'Sustainable Forestry Management'

Can we expect the logging industry to deliver 'sustainable' forest management? And who gets to decide what 'sustainable' means?

Over the past week in Bonn, thousands of people have been working on the draft version of a global climate deal, which could be agreed in Copenhagen in December. A big part of what's being discussed is how to stop deforestation globally - as you're probably aware, deforestation accounts for just under one fifth of human-caused carbon emissions into the atmosphere, and it's those carbon emissions which the REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) talks are trying to stop.

Not surprisingly, they're being heavily lobbied by all sorts of different interests - from countries rich in tropical rainforests, to countries which don't have much forest but want to be able to benefit from money earmarked for preventing deforestation, to environmental organisations, to the logging industry.