The growth in SCA's forests is more than 20% higher than felling? Consequently, a net 2.6 million tons of carbon dioxide are absorbed by these forests each year.
Forests have a unique ability to offset climate change, thanks to their capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide from the air through their needles and leaves.
The world’s forests are vital for the earth’s climate, and if cultivated correctly they can make a significant contribution to limiting climate change.
Unfortunately, forests in large parts of the world are felled and not reforested. The IPCC (UN climate panel) estimates that 20% of the increase in carbon dioxide derive from forest depletion.
If half of the earth’s forestland were managed in the same way as Sweden’s forests, the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by growing forest would be so high that climate change resulting from fossil fuel use would be fully counteracted.
Source: Sense 1/2010