The Forest–Climate Link: The Missing Piece in BC’s Climate Plan

Everyone talks about cutting fossil fuels. But there’s another massive source of climate pollution hiding in plain sight: industrial logging.

In Canada, logging releases more greenhouse gases than the oil sands - yet these emissions don’t even count in our official totals. When we clearcut a primary forest, we lose more than just trees. We lose:

• The carbon they store (gone in days, takes centuries to replace)
• The shade that keeps streams cold for salmon
• The living “sponge” that reduces floods and droughts
• The resilience that protects communities from fire

This isn’t just a global problem we can shrug at - BC has the power to change this right now. The New Forest Act offers a ready-to-go plan to protect what’s left, restore what’s been damaged, and manage forests in a way that actually helps the climate instead of making it worse.

📄 Read the new Forest–Climate Link explainer here → https://boundaryforest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/THE-FOREST-CLIMATE-LINK-EXPLAINER.pdf

Then share it with your MLA, your council, your climate group. Let’s put forests back at the centre of climate action where they belong.