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Happened in Finland too— forests becoming net carbon producers. https://www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-events/news/finlands-forests-have-become-source-carbon https://

• jabl 10mo ago
  Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.
  • timr 10mo ago
    The link you are replying to is explicit that forests are carbon sinks (which is just a scientific fact), and that the change here is due to logging. Planting more trees than you cut down is an effective way of offsetting CO2 emissions.
    • dr_dshiv 10mo ago
      And… “increased logging, rising emissions in peatland forests and declining carbon sink of mineral soils.”
      • timr 10mo ago
        Yes, “increased logging” means logging. It’s the primary change cited by the paper.
• lmc 10mo ago
  And Austria https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zum-risiko-oesterreichs-wald-wird-fuers-klima-zum-problem https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zu...
• mc32 10mo ago
  Isn't there an age-of-tree related curve? Up until XX years they are net producers -afterwards they become sinks.
  • PaulHoule 10mo ago
    That’s what people thought 20 years ago, careful accounting seems to show climax ecosystems of all kinds still capture carbon if undisturbed, I met someone who helped prove it by measuring trees with calipers year after year.