OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION TO MEET CLIMATE TARGETS
Scientists from around the world are raising the alarm on the impacts of industrial logging on Canada’s ability to meet its climate targets. In an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over 90 scientists are calling for the government to better protect Canada’s climate-critical primary forests and review how it reports logging’s carbon emissions.
The open letter comes as the government is expected to release, next week, its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan. The Plan will outline how Canada will cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent by 2030.
The scientists are critical of the government for allowing the continued clear-cutting of Canada’s globally-significant primary forests and expressed concern that the government is under-reporting industrial logging’s climate impact.
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