{"id":1045,"date":"2025-03-27T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:07:58","slug":"canada-continues-to-understate-logging-emissions-in-new-ghg-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/canada-continues-to-understate-logging-emissions-in-new-ghg-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Continues to Understate Logging Emissions in New GHG Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa, ON \u2014 March 27, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s newly-released <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.gc.ca\/site\/eng\/9.506002\/publication.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National inventory report: Greenhouse gas sources and sinks in Canada<\/a> continues to understate the true climate impact of the industrial forestry sector, says Nature Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 National Inventory Report\u2019s reporting of forestry emissions falls short in three ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lack of Transparency:<\/strong> Despite calls from Canada\u2019s Office of the Auditor General, logging emissions are still not reported separately in the Inventory, obscuring the industrial forestry sector\u2019s climate impact.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biased Accounting:<\/strong> The federal government continues to exclude emissions from wildfires (estimated at 1,100 Mt in 2023) from its GHG totals, while claiming credit for a large carbon sink from forests that regrow naturally after fires (120 Mt in 2023).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Underrepresentation of Emissions:<\/strong> The Inventory suggests that net emissions from Forest Land and Harvested Wood Products (HWP) were 18 Mt in 2023. However, if the bias in reporting of emissions and removals from natural disturbances is corrected, total net emissions from forestry in 2023 could be as high as 138 Mt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe government of Canada\u2019s climate policy must be grounded in reality,\u201d said Michael Polanyi, Policy and Campaign Manager at Nature Canada. \u201cBy misrepresenting forestry as a low-carbon sector, the government is enabling massive subsidies to a high-emitting industry while failing to address one of the country\u2019s major sources of GHG emissions. Until the full scale of logging emissions is acknowledged, billions will be wasted on ineffective climate solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Canada&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oag-bvg.gc.ca\/internet\/English\/att__e_44244.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of the Auditor General<\/a> raised concern about the lack of transparent and accurate reporting of the forestry sector emissions, concerns largely repeated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oag.bc.ca\/ministry-of-forests-calculating-carbon-projections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auditor General of British Columbia<\/a> last week. Additionally, a 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/forests-and-global-change\/articles\/10.3389\/ffgc.2023.1297301\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> found that the government of Canada underreported logging emissions by an average of 90 Mt a year between 2005 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A more detailed analysis of the forestry sector\u2019s emissions impact in 2023 will be released by Nature Canada in coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information or interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Polanyi<br \/>\n343-553-6060<br \/>\nmpolanyi@naturecanada.ca<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/naturecanada.ca\/news\/press-releases\/canada-continues-to-understate-logging-emissions-in-new-ghg-report\/\">Canada Continues to Understate Logging Emissions in New GHG Report<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/naturecanada.ca\">Nature Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa, ON \u2014 March 27, 2025 Canada\u2019s newly-released National inventory report: Greenhouse gas sources and sinks in Canada continues to understate the true climate impact of the industrial forestry sector, says Nature Canada. The 2025 National Inventory Report\u2019s reporting of forestry emissions falls short in three ways: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}