From Mick Kelly, University of East Anglia
The significance of the new data is not that credits for emission reductions
can be given for landfill sites. The results simply provide additional
justification for the credits given to managed forestry—the point of
production rather than disposal—as a long-term carbon sink.
But growing forests is an effective response to the global warming problem
only if trees are harvested and replaced at the appropriate time, and if the
resulting products have a long lifetime so that the carbon they contain is
returned to the atmosphere only after a significant delay.
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