| "Woodland creation provides highly cost-effective and achievable abatement of GHG emissions when compared with potential abatement options across other sectors. The Committee on Climate Change considered that abatement costing less than £100 per tonne of CO2 was cost-effective. All the woodland creation options evaluated here met this criterion including a range of broadleaved woodlands. The two most cost-effective options were conifer plantations and rapidly growing energy crops, but mixed woodlands managed for multiple objectives can also deliver abatement at less than £25 per tonne CO2....
Harvesting of trees leads to transfers of their carbon into wood products where it is stored, often over long periods. These can be used to substitute for those materials the production of which involves high emissions of GHG. Wood products can also be used directly as sources of energy to replace fossil fuels...
Trees have an important role in helping society to adapt to climate change, particularly in the urban environment, through providing shelter, cooling, shade and runoff control. Tree and woodland planting should be targeted to: (a) places where people live, especially the most vulnerable members of society, and (b) places where people gather (such as town and local centres) which currently have low tree cover."
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CARBON COUNTER Plan .Afforestation 
