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Trees best left to generate carbon credits
2013-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: It makes better financial sense for the native forests of southern NSW to remain un-logged and left to generate carbon credits, a new report suggests. NSW taxpayers would be able to generate carbon abatement, conservatively valued at about $222 million over the next 2½ decades, and use some of the money to fully compensate timber companies, according to the analysis by think tank The Australia Institute. The NSW government disagrees, saying the report is based on an unrealistically high...
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