Ottawa’s ‘2 Billion Trees’ Plan Will Take Decades to Produce Emissions Benefits, Gov’t Official Says

Ottawa’s plan to tackle emissions by planting two billion trees will take decades to produce benefits,  a government official says. “We had initial projections and we continue to calibrate those,” Glenn Hargrove, assistant deputy minister for Natural Resources Canada, told the Senate national finance committee on May 21. “The major emissions reductions will be sort of toward 2050 as opposed to in the next few years,” he said, adding that younger trees absorb less carbon than mature trees. “It’s sort of like human beings. Babies eat less food than teenagers,” Mr. Hargrove said, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. “If you think of it that way, once those trees start to grow, that’s when they really start to absorb that carbon. That is a little way down the road before we start to see.”...