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[https://www.earthsight.org.uk/news/press-release-europe-awash-with-wood-billion-dollar-russian-illegal-logging-scandal by earthsight 16/12/20] | [https://www.earthsight.org.uk/news/press-release-europe-awash-with-wood-billion-dollar-russian-illegal-logging-scandal by earthsight 16/12/20] | ||
London, 16 December 2020 – More than 100,000 tonnes of lumber linked to one of Russia’s largest illegal logging scandals has entered Europe despite strict import laws and mounting evidence of wrongdoing, an Earthsight investigation can reveal. | London, 16 December 2020 – More than 100,000 tonnes of lumber linked to one of Russia’s largest illegal logging scandals has entered Europe despite strict import laws and mounting evidence of wrongdoing, an Earthsight investigation can reveal. | ||
=====Forests & Climate===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/forests by SIERRA CLUB] | |||
The creation of a Forest Carbon Reserve would be an essential part of any future Green New Deal. It would result in a substantial reduction in, and avoidance of, carbon emissions from forest degradation and fossil fuel production, would be integral to a broader green jobs program. | |||
