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Sweden's Forests Show how to Halt the Greenhouse Effect
October 27th, 2008
If half the world's forests were run like Sweden's, the entire greenhouse effect could be eliminated- this is the finding of researchers at Sweden's largest forest owner and woodpulp producer, Sodra (1). A radical overhaul of global forestry along Swedish lines would see carbon locked in a growing reserve of timber rather than remaining in the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide, which is responsible for the greenhouse effect. Goran Orlander, siviculture manager at Sodra, explains: "The world's forests cover some four billion hectares. We could increase forest growth by more than 1% per year across half of this area (only half of...
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Source: VerticalNews Global Warming (2008-10-27)
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