Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
That might be true if you cut down the forest and converted it into non-biodegradable plastic and then regrew it with Arborgen's trees. However, if you turn the trees into anythin biodegradable (timber, biodegradable plastic etc etc) then ofcourse all the carbon is returned to the atmosphere over whatever time it takes the product to degrade (decades to hundreds of years for some timber, a few months for some biodegradable plastics).
Incidence of carbon-credit and carbon-debit falls on different parties.

Those growing trees obtain plenty of credits - I have confirmed this with one of the biggest forestry companies in NZ. Their comment to me is that NZ investors and businesses are not suited to long term horizon business like forestry.

So sadly, from when NZ companies owned most of the forests in NZ (NZ Forests Products, Fletcher Forests, Carter Holt Evergreen Forests etc etc etc), NZ now owns bugger all!