Suomen metsien hiilinielut ja skaalojen politiikka

Abstrakti

The global efforts to construct a general framework for the governance of climate change have affected
definitions and framing of forests. Different parties and coalitions of national states have participated in
these deliberations since the agreement of Kyoto protocol in 1997, offering several scale frames for forests
as an object of scientific/ecological knowledge production and as a target of environmental governance.
Ecologically forests may function as sources or sinks of carbon emissions depending on spatial and temporal
scales; this profound indecisiveness has become a source of political opportunism. In this paper we
study United Nations Climate Change Conference documents along national and international stakeholder
positions. Our focus is on the utilization of scalar claims and definitions of forests as problems or solutions
to the global climate crisis in Finland.