- Over 550 scientists have signed a letter to the European Commission, alerting them of the deteriorating state of European forests and calling for climate-smart forestry practices – including wood harvesting for bioenergy – to bolster their resilience to global warming.
- The letter, calls for “climate-smart forest management” to bolster European forests’ resilience and capacity to produce wood and grow carbon simultaneously.
- Instead, Mason pointed to another letter from 2018 signed by multiple IPCC lead authors and other leading scientists.
Scientists call for ‘climate smart’ forestry in face of global warming
