Forests at Copenhagen

Right now I am capturing footage for a video being made for the Copenhagen climate change conference starting on the 7th December. The video is an education tool to help people understand that forest management practices often have huge carbon emissions that are not being accounted for. In Tasmania each Autumn forestry initiates burn offs of the recently cut clear fells. These burn offs fill our gorgeous Autumn skies with massive mushroom clouds. The burn offs carbon emissions are not being accounted for. The ability of forest to absorb carbon is also not being accounted for. Tasmania's forests are an asset to a world trying to minimise its carbon consumption yet we still log and burn them. Hopefully this short sighted practice will be regulated against by the global community.