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Carbon credits
Forests planted post 1990 are carbon sinks and can be traded on this website. Carbon credits as defined by the Kyoto Protocol are one metric tonne of carbon emitted by the burning of fossil fuels.
Forests sequester atmospheric carbon as they grow and wood products store carbon for the life of those products. Therefore commercial forests have a real place within emissions trading schemes. Polluting companies pay for carbon credits according to the amount of carbon absorption by forests, and absorption capacity is influenced by site productivity and management actions.
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