In the UK,
"Woodlands planted since 1990, coupled to an enhanced woodland creation programme of 23 200 ha per year (14 840 ha additional to the 8360 ha per year assumed in business as usual projections) over the next 40 years, could, by the 2050s, be delivering, on an annual basis, emissions abatement equivalent to 10% of total GHG emissions at that time. Such a programme would represent a 4% change in land cover and would bring UK forest area to 16% which would still be well below the European average....
Existing UK forests, including soils, are both a large store of carbon (estimated at around 790 MtC) and a system removing CO2 from the atmosphere (about 15 MtCO2 per year in 2007). Sustainable forest management can maintain the carbon store of a forest at a constant level while the trees continue to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and transfer a proportion of the carbon into long-term storage in forest products.. The total carbon stored in the forest and its associated ‘wood chain’ therefore increases over time under appropriate management systems....
Within the next fi ve years sustainably-produced wood fuel has the potential to save the equivalent of approximately 7 MtCO2 emissions per year by replacing fossil fuels in the UK. This contribution could be increased further as bioenergy, including energy derived from woody biomass, makes an increasing contribution to UK targets for renewable heat, power and liquid fuels. The use of biomass for heating provides one of the most cost-effective and environmentally acceptable ways of decreasing UK GHG emissions." from
TSO Combating Climate Change: A role for UK forests (download each section) ( free Synthesis pdf)
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CARBON COUNTER Information ...Afforestation 
