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Carbon and forestry
Authors: Chris GouldingPublication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2017, Issue N.Z.J.For. 62(1) 2017, pp 2, May 2017
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: The February issue of the Journal contained a paper by Robert Hughes and Paul Molloy on the costs for small-scale forest owners in participating in New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme (ETS), concluding that the high risk and high costs make participation by small-scale forest owners unattractive and disincentivise forest investment. Yet small-scale forest owners, including many farmers, made a significant contribution to New Zealand’s post-1989 sequestration of carbon. This issue continues the theme of carbon, forestry and New Zealand’s use of the ETS to meet its international climate change obligations.