IPCC Report Leaves No More Room for Climate Denial in Logging

IPCC Report Leaves No More Room for Climate Denial in Logging

This year’s International Day of Forests comes the day after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shattered any pretense that current action is sufficient to stem catastrophic climate change. As the IPCC made clear in its bombshell synthesis report, complacency and palliative policymaking will lock in changes that will persist for thousands of years. International Day of Forests celebrates planetary renewal and resilience, an important source of hope for a livable future. However, its appearance on the heels of the IPCC report is also a reminder that, even at this eleventh hour, there’s still an entire sector mired in 1990s-style climate denial: industrial logging.