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Foresters might swap carbon for cows
Friday 20 Jul 12 10:00am
Tumbling carbon prices could trigger the conversion of large tracts of forest into dairy farms, the forestry industry is warning.
Record-low carbon prices mean that it is no longer uneconomic for owners of pre-1990s forests to permanently clear their land, Forest Owners' Association chief executive David Rhodes told Carbon News this morning.
Story copyright © Carbon News 2012
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