Canada’s Forests are on the Front Lines of Climate Change

Climate change presents profound challenges to Canada's forests, threatening their carbon storage capacity and ecosystem health, alongside community health and wellbeing and economic stability. This provokes difficult questions regarding how to maintain economic prosperity and environmental health imperatives attached to working forests.

Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) offers a comprehensive approach to climate change mitigation through forest management that restores resilience – the capacity to withstand and recover from adversity – into forest ecosystems, enhance the carbon sequestration capacities of forests, build a nature-positive economy, advance Indigenous reconciliation, and create safe communities. Canada is at a pivotal moment to embrace CSF as a cornerstone of climate action and sustainable development.