Carbon-Smart Forestry? What could it look like?

Carbon-Smart Forestry can be viewed as an important component of Climate-Smart Forestry and is defined as the act of planning and carrying out forest management with awareness of potential impacts on the carbon balance. Note that this does not place the consideration of forest carbon as the central or most important goal for forest management, given that in reality, forestry must meet multiple objectives. This journal article sets out the principles of Carbon-Smart Forestry as of today, and how managing existing woodlands can help contribute towards carbon sequestration, alongside woodland creation activities.