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<div><font face="Geneva">"There has been extensive debate about
whether the sustainable use of forests (forest management aimed at
producing a sustainable yield of timber or other products) results in
superior climate outcomes to conservation (maintenance or enhancement
of conservation values without commercial harvesting) (1-8). Most of
the relevant research has relied on consequential life-cycle
assessment (LCA), with the results tending to show that sustainable
use has lower net greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions than conservation in
the long term (1-5). However, the literature cautions that results
are sensitive to forest- and market-related contextual factors: the
carbon density of the forests, silvicultural and wood processing
practices, and the extent to which wood products and forest bioenergy
displace carbon-intensive alternatives. Depending on these issues,
conservation can be better for the climate than sustainable use
(1,6-8). Policy institutions are another key contextual factor but, so
far, they have largely been ignored )(1-6). Using a case study on
the Southern Forestry Region (SFR) of New South Wales (NSW),
Australia, we show how policy institutions can affect the assessed
outcomes from alternative forest management strategies. Our results
highlight the need for greater attention to be paid to policy
institutions in forest carbon research."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">Andrew Macintosh, Heather Keith and David
Lindenmayer. Rethinking forest carbon assessments to account for
policy institutions.<i> Nature Climate Change </i> Published
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<div><font face="Geneva">29 JUNE 2015 | DOI:
10.1038/NCLIMATE2695</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"The most
painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be
to ignore it until something happens that elicits powerful public
demands for immediate and Draconian action."<br>
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Jonathan Lash. <br>
"As the earth heats up. " <br>
<i>Journal of Commerce </i> August 16, 1996.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Š the race
between climate dynamics and climate policy will be a close one
Š." and " Š requires an industrial revolution for
sustainability starting now." </font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Hans Joachim
Schellenhuber.<br>
Global warming: Stop worrying, start panicking?</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences</i> September 23, 2008 vol.
105 no. 38</font></div>
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