All articles by Olivier Kölmel

  • Mouth of Lockhart/Gordon Creek. © Greenpeace / Phil Aikman

    The boreal forest : our climate shield

    Canada's forests are even more important for climate than we thought - according to a ground-breaking new piece of research. In 2017, Greenpeace set out to better understand the climate impacts of clearcut logging in Canada's boreal forest, commissioning scientist Jay Malcolm, from the University of Toronto, to research this further. Here’s what you NEED…

    Olivier Kölmel
  • The Impacts of Logging in the Great Northern Forest

    The Great Northern Forest is the evergreen crown of the planet, the boreal forest landscape that rings the subarctic and representing nearly one-third of the forest left on Earth. This amazing ecosystem is an important global reservoir of stored carbon and a crucial haven for biodiversity in the face of climate change.

    Olivier Kölmel