Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Is it better for the planet to save a tree or cut it down?Elementary school students fresh off an Earth Day lesson would probably suggest saving the tree. Reasonably well-informed adults would explain that living trees absorb carbon dioxide, growing atmospheric concentrations of which are raising global temperatures. A climate scientist might say that forests around the world emit half as much carbon as they absorb—roughly 1.5 times the emission…