Indicative Forest Sequestration Tables
Introduction
The Government has agreed in principle that owners of post 1989 forest will be able to take ownership and responsibility for changes in forest carbon stocks. NZUs can be issued for increases in carbon stock, and a surrender of NZUs would be required for a decrease in carbon stocks.
In order to assist forest owners to assess the value to them in participating in this scheme or the Permanent Forest Sinks Initiative (PFSI), MAF wishes to provide a series of tables showing carbon sequestration rates for various species and sites. It is important to note that these tables are not the tables that will be included in the post-1989 forestry regulations of the NZ Emission Trading Scheme legislation, although the sequestration rates will be broadly consistent with the regulated tables.
This report presents tables of forest biomass carbon1 and describes the construction methods used in their development. The tables do not purport to represent actual carbon stored in any one specific stand, nor the expected mean values for any geographical region.
1 Throughout the report the term “carbon” is used to mean actual carbon in tonnes per hectare. To convert numeric values of carbon to carbon dioxide equivalent, multiply by 44/12.
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