Preserve the integrity of mature forests in the operation of timber or biomass

There is widespread belief and the wrong that cutting deforestation trunks or mature forests and replacing them with young trees, which grow quickly, will have positive effects on climate through atmospheric CO2 retention. Although young trees grow and retain more carbon, and have seen what happens to this stored carbon when mature forests are cut. By cutting a forest, part of the carbon stored there may be years or decades in wood products results, but other amounts of CO2 are released into the atmosphere immediately, the soil disturbance and, over time, through the decomposition leaves and branches.

Voluntary measures will bring greater recognition of the role of sustainable use of soil in the field to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Creating confidence in this approach requires that rules be sufficiently rigorous to ensure that voluntary actions lead to clear, measurable emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and other environmental benefits. Without a reduction in real large-scale emissions of greenhouse gases, such temporary measures not volunteering can lead to mitigation of climate change.