[MCN] Weyerhauser just bought bigger spot in climate future

[Lance Olsen]

Weyerhauser isn't specifically mentioned here, 
but the article drives home a point of which no 
timberland owner can ignore. In the past couple 
years, major investors holding trillions of 
dollars have rather forcefully told a wide 
variety of corporations to assess their exposure 
to climate risk, and make that knowledge public 
for all to see.

Excerpt: "Perhaps most importantly, forest 
practices could play key roles in helping nations 
achieve their individual climate pledges 
- pledges that would underpin the hoped-for Paris 
climate agreement.

"Analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists 
throughout the year has highlighted the scant 
attention being paid to forests under most of 
those national pledges. That's despite forest 
loss being blamed for more than 10 percent of 
climate-changing pollution being released 
globally every year.

"I would say that many of them fall short by 
substantial amounts," said Douglas Boucher, a 
senior analyst at the nonprofit. "The worst," he 
said, included pledges from the U.S. and the 
European Union.

End excerpt, full article here:
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/paris-climate-pact-could-leave-forests-vulnerable-19683
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"To effectively reduce emissions, societies need 
to focus on reducing the consumption of energy at 
both the individual/household level and the 
system level Š "

Andrew K. Jorgenson. Analysing fossil-fuel 
displacement. Nature Climate Change, June 2012
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