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Comment: Climate change report exposes fallacies of current tree policies 10 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 6 minutes to read Whanganui Federated Farmers president Mike Cranstone asks is Carbon Zero simply creative accounting? Whanganui Chronicle OPINION: Mike Cranstone, president of Whanganui Federated Farmers, asks the curly question: Is Carbon Zero just creative accounting? The Climate Change Commission s report makes some daunting recommendations for government policies, but it also berates the current mitigation approach that many businesses are taking. Significantly, it emphasises that offsetting CO2 emissions by planting pine trees is just shifting the burden to the next generation. It states, We can t plant our way out of climate change, the focus must be on decarbonising and reducing emissions at source. ....