Plantations and offsets - thinking needed

摘要

One of the perceived benefits of emissions trading schemes is that they promote reforestation through the mechanism of carbon credits. Many farmers and their organisations have welcomed the prospect of being paid to plant trees on previously cleared land, but at least one farm forestry expert is sounding a note of caution.rnNational coordinator of the Australian Master TreeGrower Program, Rowan Reid, is concerned that the rules of the Kyoto Protocol, and the way that forests are being treated in emissions trading schemes, are leading to irreversible land-use change: from agriculture to forest.