In spite of many people being aware of the impending global warming and the existence of the international agreement, the Kyoto Accord, that seeks to lower the carbon dioxide emissions of all nations, few are aware of the importance of Industrial Tree Plantations in helping achieve this goal.
The facts are that trees absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For every 1,000 hectares of industrial tree plantation, nearly 28,000 tons of carbon dioxide is absorbed and stored by the trees. Unfortunately, our natural forests are nowhere near as useful in this respect. The continual decay of vegetation that occurs release the previously stored gas and this is reabsorbed by new growth. Thus, the release and absorption tend to cancel each other out, whereas in managed industrial tree plantations, decaying vegetation is kept at a minimum and carbon dioxide retained.
So important is this factor that countries that carry out extensive reforestation can claim carbon dioxide credits for their plantations and even sell these credits to less fortunate countries. Industrial tree plantations are therefore an essential ingredient in keeping the earth cooler, preventing the melting of ice caps and rising oceans
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