MPI report endorses FOA position
August 6, 2020
MPI commissioned report endorses FOA statements that forestry leads sheep and beef farming for export returns and providing jobs. Click on the link below to
Many overseas timber companies, corporations and pension funds have recognized New Zealand’s competitive advantage in plantation forestry and have invested in New Zealand Radiata Pine Forests.
Companies worldwide are moving to reduce carbon emissions and the most cost effective way to acquire carbon is to grow it through forest ownership.
By establishing a new forest a company can secure the cost of carbon going forward thus reducing exposure to an inflationary carbon price.
It is an investment in a real asset ‘land and trees’, the carbon credits can be banked and used to offset emissions or simply sold when the price is right.
MPI commissioned report endorses FOA statements that forestry leads sheep and beef farming for export returns and providing jobs. Click on the link below to
There’s some agitation out there at the moment about farming being under threat from forestry. In my opinion, much of what’s circulating is based on