Logging will increase carbon emissions by “changing patterns of land use from uses that store more carbon per unit area to uses that store less carbon per unit area.” more carbon is emitted to the atmosphere. Current efforts to increase logging come at a significant climate change opportunity cost.

How are trees affecting climate change?

As trees grow, they help stop climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the air, storing carbon in the trees and soil, and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.

How does lumbering affect forests?

The most important conservation impact of logging forest is the attendant loss of biological and genetic diversity. It is quite clear, felling substantial areas of forest will result in loss of species. ... The loss of even one species diminished the whole of humanity, for it is a storehouse of genetic resources.