British Columbia’s carbon-accounting process to help make forestry decisions isn’t consistent or transparent, a new report by the province’s auditor general indicates. The BC Forests Ministry uses carbon projections to help determine how management decisions could affect the amount of carbon emissions the province’s forests store and release into the atmosphere. The audit focused on the ministry’s methods for carbon projections between April 2022 and December 2024 in three areas: the forest investments program, the allowable annual cut and forest landscape planning. The forest ministry failed to establish open and consistent methods to make carbon projections the report found. …However, at the end of 2024, the ministry did finalize an open and consistent plan for carbon projections to inform landscape planning, Dodd noted. …Gary Bull, with the UBC’s forestry department said… “In order to do carbon accounting you have to have some kind of consensus around the rules of the game,” he said.