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Since 50% of a tree is composed of carbon, trees represent one of the best ways to extract carbon (which enters the tree as CO₂) from the air. The Kyoto Protocol recognizes this and has defined afforestation (as opposed to reforestation) for sequestration purposes. That is, if the tree planting takes place in an area which has not been forested in the past 50 years (such as a farm field) it can be legitimately considered as "afforestation" and therefore count for sequestered carbon. Interestingly enough is that if the tree is allowed to decompose or burn, it's value in sequestration is lost back to the atmosphere. However, if the tree is made into timber or furniture, its sequestered value will be even lengthened. As well as other areas where Canadians can encourage activities that "take" greenhouse gases, especially CO₂ out of the atmosphere.

The Government of Canada has encouraged each Canadian to lower their CO₂ emissions by a tonne/year. The Tree Canada Foundation has taken up this lead by asking each Canadian to plant 110 trees - on average 110 trees will sequester 1 tonne of CO₂ per year.

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