Greenpeace's vision for a new conservation based forest economy in Canada's boreal forest

A green and sustainable forestry industry recognizes that There is a need to use the current global economic crisis the sooner the transition is made, the more options future to leverage the support needed to transform how forestry generations will have to engage in a sustainable economy is practiced in Canada’s Boreal forest so that forest capital built on the foundation of having both a good qua [...] The same number of people said In a report released in 2008, Turning Up the Heat: Global that stabilizing the economy should not come at the cost Warming and the Degradation of Canada’s Boreal Forest5, of the environment.4 Greenpeace detailed how Canada’s Boreal Forest stores 186 billion tonnes of carbon6, equal to 27 years worth of global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels7. [...] Unfortunately, the very people who have lived all their lives in close proximity to forests and who have worked GOVERNMENT for generations in the forest products industry are most Both federal and provincial governments have a affected by the collapse of the forest industry and the larger responsibility to play a critical role in building a new green economic downturn. [...] Rather than repeating the historical A GLOBAL MODEL pattern of giving large government bailouts to companies, funding should go into the communities that are affected by Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest on the west coast of the collapse of the forest industry to remake themselves in a British Columbia has already begun making the transition to a precautionary ecosystem-based approach to the diversif