UN Report confirms woods environmental credentials

A recent report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stresses that action must be taken now to prevent the devastating impacts of global climate change.

This is good news for wood as forests and wood have a vital environmental role to play.

In addition to absorbing carbon, wood is less energy intensive to produce. The IPCC findings talk abot substituting wood products for other energy intensive products to reduce emissions.

The findings also say that sustainable management of both planted and natural forests is essential to achieving sustainable development.

It is a means, says the report, to reduce poverty, reduce deforestation, halt the loss of forest biodiversity, reduce land and resource degradationg and contribute to climate change mitigation.

From NZ Wood.