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Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

  • Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.
Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI | April 30, 2025
Trees
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Canada must recognize that forest degradation is occurring and move to redress it, write Rachel Plotkin, Julee Boan, and Michael Polanyi. Photograph courtesy of Pexels/Felix Mittermeier

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI | April 30, 2025
  • Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI | April 30, 2025
  • Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.
Trees
Canada must recognize that forest degradation is occurring and move to redress it, write Rachel Plotkin, Julee Boan, and Michael Polanyi. Photograph courtesy of Pexels/Felix Mittermeier

Forestry has finally been recognized as a climate polluter: now what?

  • Acknowledging and reducing the ecological and climate impacts of logging is key to stemming the climate and biodiversity crises.
Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI | June 5, 2024
For years, the federal government has portrayed forestry to be carbon-neutral or even a small carbon sink, neglecting any role industrial logging plays in exacerbating the climate crisis, writes Michael Polanyi. Unsplash photograph by Jamie Morris 

Forestry has finally been recognized as a climate polluter: now what?

Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI | June 5, 2024
  • Acknowledging and reducing the ecological and climate impacts of logging is key to stemming the climate and biodiversity crises.

Forestry has finally been recognized as a climate polluter: now what?

Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI | June 5, 2024
  • Acknowledging and reducing the ecological and climate impacts of logging is key to stemming the climate and biodiversity crises.
For years, the federal government has portrayed forestry to be carbon-neutral or even a small carbon sink, neglecting any role industrial logging plays in exacerbating the climate crisis, writes Michael Polanyi. Unsplash photograph by Jamie Morris 

Logging in Canada is not sustainable and needs to change

  • International markets are increasingly demanding products that do not harm Earth’s climate and biodiversity-critical forests.
Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI, JANET SUMNER | June 7, 2023
A number of recent reports and initiatives are bringing increased attention to real and significant negative climate and biodiversity impacts of logging, write Michael Polanyi and Janet Sumner. Unsplash photograph by Yusuf Onuk

Logging in Canada is not sustainable and needs to change

Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI, JANET SUMNER | June 7, 2023
  • International markets are increasingly demanding products that do not harm Earth’s climate and biodiversity-critical forests.

Logging in Canada is not sustainable and needs to change

Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI, JANET SUMNER | June 7, 2023
  • International markets are increasingly demanding products that do not harm Earth’s climate and biodiversity-critical forests.
A number of recent reports and initiatives are bringing increased attention to real and significant negative climate and biodiversity impacts of logging, write Michael Polanyi and Janet Sumner. Unsplash photograph by Yusuf Onuk

The surprising reality check on positioning logging as a low-carbon sector

  • In 2019, more than three-quarters of a million hectares of forests were logged in Canada—the equivalent of more than nine NHL hockey rinks every
Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI | June 8, 2022
How can large-scale logging, which mostly involves clearcutting of carbon-rich primary forests, be carbon neutral, asks Michael Polanyi. Unsplash photograph by Jamie Morris

The surprising reality check on positioning logging as a low-carbon sector

Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI | June 8, 2022
  • In 2019, more than three-quarters of a million hectares of forests were logged in Canada—the equivalent of more than nine NHL hockey rinks every

The surprising reality check on positioning logging as a low-carbon sector

Opinion | BY MICHAEL POLANYI | June 8, 2022
  • In 2019, more than three-quarters of a million hectares of forests were logged in Canada—the equivalent of more than nine NHL hockey rinks every
How can large-scale logging, which mostly involves clearcutting of carbon-rich primary forests, be carbon neutral, asks Michael Polanyi. Unsplash photograph by Jamie Morris
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