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Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.

The link you are replying to is explicit that forests are carbon sinks (which is just a scientific fact), and that the change here is due to logging.

Planting more trees than you cut down is an effective way of offsetting CO2 emissions.

And… “increased logging, rising emissions in peatland forests and declining carbon sink of mineral soils.”

Yes, “increased logging” means logging. It’s the primary change cited by the paper.

Isn't there an age-of-tree related curve? Up until XX years they are net producers -afterwards they become sinks.

That’s what people thought 20 years ago, careful accounting seems to show climax ecosystems of all kinds still capture carbon if undisturbed, I met someone who helped prove it by measuring trees with calipers year after year.

And Austria

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zu...