The Forest-Climate Working Groups new policy platform outlines how policymakers can help private landowners and public land managers grow powerful climate solutions in America’s forests and forest products while delivering other environmental, economic, and social benefits.
This platform document covers:
- Our core beliefs that keeping forests as forests is the foundation to all forest-climate solutions, that forests and forest products can do even more to mitigate climate change, and that helping forests adapt to climate change is an important complement to actions that will sequester and store more carbon in forests.
- Our goals to:
- maintain and expand forest cover,
- improve and incentivize forest practices for carbon, adaptation and resilience
- advance markets for forest carbon, forest products, and skilled labor, and
- expand climate data and applied science
- Our policy recommendations: Our recommendations are organized into five categories to assist policy makers in evaluating the most relevant opportunities for their constituents and the nation. There are separate sections for private and public forests, recognizing that many policy recommendations which support private owners will also support public lands. The other three categories – forest products, data and applied science, and workforce – include recommendations that support private and public lands.
Download the Forest-Climate Working Group Policy Platform today to learn more about the powerful climate solutions in America’s forests and forest products.