Create incentives for tree planting and promote carbon sequestration - PolitiFact

Category: Carbon Accounting
Date: 2011-09-03 07:37:01
URL: http://bit.ly/qBcsVG

Create incentives for tree planting and promote carbon sequestration PolitiFact All plants absorb carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas -- as a part of the photosynthesis process. Carbon dioxide is in turn stored as carbon in the plants biomass -- its trunk, roots, and leaves. This storage prevents the carbon from escaping into the ...