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in agriculture; Canada and some other countries interpret this as
afforestation. According to the IPCC, afforestation refers to tree planting
on lands that have never been and would not naturally be in forest. These
disparate views are rooted in Kyoto's failure to take proper account of
carbon in wood products. Canada and other major wood product exporters
feel that their definition of reforestation simply recognizes the fact that
much of the C in harvested timber gets exported and that the debit from
logging should be therefore be charged to the importing country.
Reforestation needs to take into account the C debit from
harvesting trees, but it also needs to take into account C stored in wood
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