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Published online 7 January 2009 | Nature 457, 144-146 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457144a
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Forestry: A green investment
If growing forests in India can generate lucrative carbon credits, then why isn't everyone planting trees? Paroma Basu reports.
On a humid morning in August 2008, Harshkumar Kulkarni strolled through a thicket of young eucalyptus trees, surveying their slender forms. Stroking each silver trunk as he passed, Kulkarni, the general manager for plantations at the conglomerate Indian Tobacco Corporation (ITC), seemed like a concerned father checking on his children — albeit more than 3 million of them.
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Although much more research is needed, it appears that converting some of the tree matter into biochar and thence into Tera Preta (or its modern equivalent) offers effective long term (100s or 1000s of years) means of carbon sequestration in soils. This seems also to enhance fertility. So why is not everybody trying to do this as well?