Victoria MP Laurel Collins says Canada is not following recommendations from its environment commissioner to better track unaccounted emissions from the logging sector.
The NDP’s federal environment critic says Canada is ignoring calls to close loopholes in how it reports carbon emissions from logging — what some experts suggest could amount to 90 million tonnes a year.
Government plan fails to address audit's key recommendations In December 2023, a government document circulated to stakeholders and later reviewed by Glacier Media outlined three options on how Ottawa could change its emission auditing process. The discrepancy in emissions data comes from the way the government reports wildfire emissions, say experts.
Should the annual gap in forestry carbon emissions turn out to be accurate, the industry’s average historical annual emissions would skyrocket to roughly 90 million tonnes, officially making it a carbon emitter.
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