We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon.
Bruce Westerman: “We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood…”
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Westerman emphasizes the importance of forests in carbon storage.
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