Position Paper on Global Climate Change by the International Analog Forestry Network RIFA-IAFN

As a network of organizations working globally to achieve the restoration of local life support systems using the approach of Analog Forestry
Concerned that the current trends on global climate change threaten food security, human health, potable water availability and biodiversity loss
Concerned that the worlds oceans are under threat by increasing acidification and loss of marine productivity
Aware of the urgency to create a new development paradigm that reduces the need for consumption of fossil carbon resources to power growth
State that:

1. The modern phenomenon of Climate Change (global atmospheric warming) was initiated by the felling of the planets standing forest stock by the colonial adventurism that began around the end of 1400.
2. This process depleted the cooling factor that the forests contributed to the planet through evapotranspiration and the cooling factor of cloud albedo by depleting the volume of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) contributed by the global standing forest stock.
3. The process was exasperated by the advent of Carbon Dioxide gas released through the burning of the standing global forest stock.
4. The advent of the industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuel exasperated and added to the warming trend such that the global heating effect was increased exponentially.
5. There is a value difference between biotic Carbon Dioxide released from the biospheric process and Carbon Dioxide released through the oxidation of fossil carbon. This value difference has to be reflected in any mechanism that seeks to support carbon trade
6. The loss of biotic carbon from each nation through the actions of another must be recognized as a carbon debt to the nation that suffered the loss.
7. The addition of fossil carbon to the planetary atmosphere by any nation must be recognized as a carbon debt incurred by that nation.
8. Nations claiming carbon debt must balance their biotic carbon debt verses their fossil carbon debt at a ratio of at least 1:10,000

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