B.C.’s Ministry of Forests has approved a new way to calculate the amount of carbon in forests — what it says is a direct response to an auditor general investigation that found the province had failed to transparently do so in the past.
In March 2025, the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia released the results of its investigation into the Ministry of Forest’s forest carbon projections.
Those projections are used to understand how the ministry’s management decisions might impact how much carbon remains stored in the forest and how much is released into the atmosphere.
The analysis uses modelling to estimate how activities like tree planting
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