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The International Forestry Partnerships Program (IFPP) is a communications program of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) supported by Canadian missions abroad to position Canada as a world leader in sustainable forest management and environmental stewardship to protect and enhance market access for Canadian forest products.
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Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle, exchanging carbon with the atmosphere through photosynthesis and respiration, and storing a large amount of carbon in vegetation and soil.

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Globally, there is more carbon stored in forest biomass, dead organic matter, and soil than is contained in the atmosphere.

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