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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Great thread explaining why forest offsets are not the answer. And here's a link to the paper - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Perspectives. Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productive

Storing carbon in forest ecosystems is commonly promoted as a nature-based solution to climate change in which increases in forest carbon storage are …

Emily Dolhansky@emilydolhansky.bsky.social

I have long thought forest carbon offsets were just an incursion of Silicon Valley’s magical thinking in the forestry space, and I was right. This brief in Forest Ecology and Management does a great job at breaking it down. Short 🌲🧵—

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

tldr; Lots of good reasons to expand forests but 'carbon capture' isn't the driving reason, because any carbon capture done this way is short-term ("centennial") and is dwarfed by the carbon-dumping activity of burning fossil fuel. Other things should be the focus. +1

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

What do you/academia think of creating and then burying charcoal as a means of carbon capture?

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The grumbling Valkano @valklimate.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Sure, we can protect a forest from being harvested, but if demand for lumber and paper remain the same, those trees will just be cut down somewhere else.

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