Sequoia planting scheme in the uk (1 Viewer)

[THE_FERN]

An important point about tree planting is that they net emitters for some years after planting. (This is partly due to soil disturbance.) So you have to be in it for the long game in order to achieve net sequestration.

 

[jurek]

This looks like an example of a damaging pseudo-environmental scheme which considers only CO2, but damages biodiversity and other aspects of environment. Perhaps the years of tolerating alarmist and simplistic media messages hit back.

The non-native sequoia does not support much wildlife which native British trees support as a matter of course, as a free value of biodiversity. I am unsure about the validity of the message that one sequoia captures as much CO2 as a human within his lifetime, but it seems that it would take a sequoia several 1000s of years of growth.

BTW, where I live there are quite many sequoias, which were planted decades ago as ornamental trees. The problem is that after several decades, trees turn into behemoths which threaten nearby buildings and are not easy to cut safely!