my understanding, limited as it is, is that the carbon rights...

my understanding, limited as it is, is that the carbon rights are intrinsincly linked to the land not the trees and only the registraion of the deed on title will seperate them from the land and trees. The real issue comes if the owner of the trees wants to harvest and there is a liability for carbon , as harvests are treated as emisisons at the point of harvest, can the carbon rights owner prevent the harvest from occuring. If the carbon rights are owned by the managment company then can the administrator sell them as an asset. I think it is great (from an industry point of view) that we have this test run now as the plant and manage carbon industry is ramping up but if you get your revenue from planting and managing do you really care about the long term liability of the carbon permits?

There are a number of problems facing the industry inthe future, one of the biggest is the government decisosn that all carbon permits under the CPRS wil be calculoated using the National Carbon Accounting System default tool FullCAM. This is going to put a significant dint in the projected returns of several companies who use other modelling software to calcualte thier carbon.