As well as reducing fossil fuel use, forests are key in mitigating climate change since forests remove
significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Forests also provide raw materials for
products and fuel for energy production, which decrease fossil emissions to the atmosphere when
substituting more fossil emissions-intensive alternatives. Carbon stored in wood-based products is also
an additional benefit of this. However, we know that harvesting, at least in the short term, reduces the
carbon sink of a forest. If forestry is looked at from the perspective of climate change mitigation, there
are some relevant questions which require attention.
Organization: The Finnish Climate Panel