Climate Protection Plan 2050 is contradictory

The AGR (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rohholzverbraucher; Consortium of Raw Timber Consumers) critizied a draft of the action plan for Climate Protection 2050 during a public hearing in the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conversation, Construction and Nuclear Safety that took place on the 27^th of September. Extended rotation times and additional woodland set-asides are contradictory to the intention of increasingly bonding CO2 by utilizing domestic wood for timber construction. 1.26 bn potentially bondable tons of CO2 would remain in the atmosphere due to the usage restrictions until 2052, the AGR informs. Furthermore, the substitution effects from utilizing timber as a replacement for other materials have not been taken into account. The consortium criticizes that the consequences of land set-asides for regional employment have not even been mentioned. A lot of the measures for the reduction of CO2-levels suggested in the action plan have been categorized as simply ineffective, if not contraproductive.