Govt considering more incentives to encourage forest planting: Bennett

Govt considering more incentives to encourage forest planting: Bennett
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Oct. 11 (BusinessDesk) - The government is considering measures to further encourage more forestry planting as it examines whether locally grown forests will be cheaper than buying foreign carbon credits to meet its climate change targets. Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett told the Climate Change and Business Conference in Auckland that “how to get more trees in the ground” is a key part of its work on the supply of carbon credits into the country’s emissions trading scheme in the 2020s. Earlier this month, the...