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Afforestation Policy Analysis
Background Afforestation, or the planting of trees on land that has been bare of trees for a long period of time, is a means of addressing climate change, which is recognized under the Kyoto Protocol. This is because living trees, including fast-growing plantations have the capacity to remove carbon from the atmosphere. In August, 2003, the Government of Canada announced the details of its $1 billion investment toward the implementation of the Climate Change Plan for Canada. As part of this initiative, Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service (CFS) is implementing the Forest 2020 Plantation Demonstration Assessment (Forest 2020 PDA) to explore the capacity of fast-growing plantations to help Canada address its Kyoto Protocol targets. The projects undertaken through FAACS have contributed directly to the
Forest 2020 PDA because of the mutual reinforcement of the goals of the
two projects. The project descriptions, reports and analytical results
provided through this web site are the result of both initiatives.
How do these two initiatives contribute?
The Forest 2020 PDA Initiative is exploring the use of fast-growing tree plantations to help achieve Canada’s Kyoto Protocol targets. To support this objective, the CFS is conducting an examination of the economics of fast growing plantations and potential options to attract investment into future Canadian plantations, by taking advantage of the combined benefits of both wood fibre, carbon values and other environmental services. Forest 2020 PDA has approached these goals through:
To learn more about these aspects of the program, please choose one of the links below:
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Last Updated: 2006-07-20 | Important Notices |