Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts: Report

Former treasury boss looking past logging to 'grow money on trees'

Former treasure secretary Ken Henry is pushing a new effort to protect native forests from logging and keep carbon stored in living trees.

Large powers overestimate the CO2 absorption capacity of their forests and use it to slow their exit from fossil fuels while pretending to keep their climate targets, denounces the evaluation of an international observatory published on Thursday.

Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts: Report

Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them to use even more fossil fuels, new research said Thursday.

Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts: report

Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them to use even more fossil fuels, new research said Thursday.

Paris - Big powers overestimate the CO2 absorption capacity of their forests and use it to slow their exit from fossil fuels while pretending to keep their climate targets, denounces the evaluation of an international observatory