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A Tree Planting Leader - Tree Canada Announces Its First Carbon Protocol

(Nanaimo, B.C. - September 23, 2009) Tree Canada has released its first Forest & Urban Tree Carbon Project Protocol, a comprehensive document that describes how Tree Canada will account for the greenhouse gas offset value of the trees it plants.

Tree Canada, Canada's largest national tree organization, has planted over 76 million trees, many of them to offset CO₂ and other greenhouses gases. The Protocol was developed because individuals, companies and organizations are interested in using trees as a way to offset their CO₂emissions. Trees are approximately 50% carbon, all of which comes from the atmosphere where greenhouse gases including CO₂ are contributing to global warming.

"We are extremely proud of this document because it demonstrates to Canadians that trees are a viable and reliable way to offset greenhouse gas emissions" said Dorothy Dobbie, Chair of Tree Canada. "We wish to thank our Associates, Board members and external experts who carried out such a thorough review of this document so that trees can be as part of Canadians' personal climate change action plans," she said. 

To read the protocol in English, click here: http://www.treecanada.ca/site/resources/pages/files/Carbon%20Protocol%20English.pdf

To read the protocol in French, click here: http://www.treecanada.ca/site/resources/pages/files/Carbon%20Protocol%20French.pdf

For more information please contact:

Melissa Nisbett
Tree Canada Communications & Marketing Officer
(613) 567-5545 ext 224
mnisbett@treecanada.ca

Tree Canada is a not-for-profit charitable organization established to encourage Canadians to plant and care for trees in urban and rural environments. A winner of the Canadian Environmental Award (2007), Tree Canada engages Canadian companies, government agencies and individuals to support the planting of trees, the greening of schoolyards, and other efforts to sensitize Canadians to the benefits of planting and maintaining trees. To date, more than 76 million trees have been planted, more than 450 schoolyards have been greened, and Tree Canada has organized 8 national urban forest conferences. More information about Tree Canada is available at www.treecanada.ca.

Submitted: 2009-09-23