Strategies should be adaptive, their success or failure should be monitored, and the strategies changed, if necessary, in the light of experience. The ECE Region forests are at present a major carbon sink and this situation should be maintained or increased. The rate of carbon sequestration can be increased by expanding forest area. The carbon stock should be protected from unintended carbon releases, through fire, insects, windthrow or other causes. At present the carbon store in products is estimated at 5000 million tonnes. The size of this stock can be increased, by increasing consumption of forest products, as well as by lengthening the life in service of wood products, although there are limits to this expansion, and countries should realize that under conditions of increased harvesting, the sink in the forest would decline for some time.