Carbon in the bank

Carbon In The Bank: BC’s Forests and the Fight Against Global Warming Acknowledgements ForestEthics would like to thank all those who have contributed to this brief and to the first publication in this series, Robbing the Carbon Bank: Global Warming and Ontario’s Boreal Forest, including Sara Wilson and Jim Ford for their research contributions. [...] Carbon In The Bank: BC’s Forests and the Fight Against Global Warming Carbon In The Bank: BC’s Forests and the Fight Against Global Warming This policy brief, prepared by ForestEthics, is intended as an educational intervention to assist international policy makers in better understanding the crucial role British Columbia's forests play in both mitigating and adapting to climate change, and to pro [...] The brief complements a series of policy and technical briefs designed to help policy makers at home and abroad qualify and quantify the climate change mitigation capabilities of Canada's forests, and will enable the international community to hold British Columbia and Canada to account when it comes to making one of the simplest and most powerful contributions to the fight against global warming: [...] This policy brief explores the carbon storage and other ecosystem services provided by British Columbia’s forests, and the impacts of industrial logging on these systems, and identifies some important considerations for policy makers at home and abroad in the development of forests and climate policy. [...] Carbon In The Bank: BC’s Forests and the Fight Against Global Warming forest ecosystems is approximately 18 billion tonnes of carbon (gigatonnes).1 Other studies have found similar storage estimates.2 Based on the recent global cost of carbon estimate by the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the carbon stored by BC’s forests is worth 486 billion Canadian dollars.3 Adapting to Climat