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A new quality assurance scheme is due to be tested by the Forestry Commission in an attempt to verify the standards of tree planting projects in tackling the carbon issue. Until now there have been no required standards, or way of measuring such to prove that benefits are made.
The introduction of the Woodland Carbon Code will mean consistency and that investors and potential customers have a clearer and fairer gauge as to the benefits their contribution shall make.
To ensure compliance with the Code, projects must: be responsibly and sustainably managed to national standards; use standard methods for estimating the carbon that will be sequestered or locked up; be independently verified; and must meet transparent criteria and standards to ensure that real carbon benefits are made.
The Code means that project providers have to now register with the Forestry Commission and on approval will appear in a national online register.
Forestry Commission Director General, Tim Rollinson has commented: “Increasingly, people and companies are realising the valuable potential that tree planting schemes have to soak up CO2 from the atmosphere. There are now many commercial schemes that encourage individuals and businesses to contribute to tree planting to help compensate for their carbon footprint. But before investing in projects people want to know that schemes will actually deliver what they claim. The Woodland Carbon Code will provide that reassurance and will encourage more investment in tree planting in the UK.” The Code will be finalised in 2011 after a six-month test period.
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