Carbon Neutral Business and Planting Trees to offset CO2

Naomi-K

3-11-2008 7:01 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae1b1a96-b525-4075-8c37-49e7b307060c/CF85966A-7DD3-4800-8453-AE13D75C4DE6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/carbon_offsetting_tree_planting.htm" href="http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/carbon_offsetting_tree_planting.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.coolantarctica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/carbon_offsetting_tree_planting.htm"><FONT size="2" color="#800000">So I thought "I 
		wonder how realistic this could be" - time to get the calculator and do 
		some sums.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/carbon_offsetting_tree_planting.htm"><P><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><B>So a mature forest can soak up the equivalent of
		<FONT color="#800000">440 tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per 
		hectare</FONT></B> in the 50-100 years it takes to reach maturity - 
		that's a one-off total - not per year and will take several decades at 
		least to get there.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/carbon_offsetting_tree_planting.htm"><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><B>This is approximately equivalent to 
		the entire land area of Spain, twice as big as the United Kingdom and 
		bigger than any US state other than Texas (696,621 sq km.) or Alaska 
		(1,717,854 sq. km.) </B>To be forested anew each year and held as such 
		forever.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/carbon_offsetting_tree_planting.htm"><P align="center"><FONT face="Arial"><B>It would appear therefore than planting trees 
			alone other than on a colossal scale  is not going to even 
			allow us to stand still, let alone start to reverse the effects of 
			global warming.</B></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF85966A-7DD3-4800-8453-AE13D75C4DE6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Naomi-K says:

This is an interesting calculation. The practise of planting trees to offset carbon emissions has been praised and questioned.

While planting trees can only be a good thing, whether it is as effective as cutting down emissions is doubtful.

Ideally, businesses would do both.

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