The forestry & wood sector and climate change mitigation

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While the main challenge in intertropical and boreal regions is tackling
deforestation and forest resource degradation, forests and forestry in
temperate regions face what may appear to be contradictory goals: to increase
atmospheric carbon capture through sequestration in biomass and soils, while
providing a growing share of the resources needed to produce essential
material goods and energy for human societies as well as gradually renewing
forests to enable them to adapt to future climate conditions. Creating a
balance between these potentially competing priorities has been the subject of
intense societal and scientific debate in recent years, which has prompted us
to examine all aspects of these issues in greater depth.

INRAE and IGN, at the request of the French Ministries responsible for
agriculture and forestry, have jointly undertaken a scientific assessment to
shed light on the details of this debate, using the example of forests and the
forestry & wood sectors in metropolitan France. The results of this important
exercise are presented in this book.





The French version of this book, Filière forêt-bois et atténuation du
changement climatique, is available on our website.

La version française de ce titre, Filière forêt-bois et atténuation du
changement climatique, est disponible sur notre site.