This article synthesizes critiques of ‘carbon-fix’ strategies in the forestry sector to clarify key concerns about reductionist treatments of forests and carbon and to facilitate further debate. It begins by asserting that since climate change mitigation has been placed at the centre of forest governance, forests have been deemed to serve as ‘carbon-fixing’ devices in ways that can be discerned across three distinct but inter-related categories: (i) carbon storage devices, (ii) carbon removal devices and (iii) net-zero bioenergy devices.
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