1.   Businesses are investing in tree plantations as a tax dodge .

2.   Green Con runners-up were paper makers Scott, who claimed that its investment in tree plantations for the paper trade helped combat global warming.

3.   It would also include controversial -- and unproven -- schemes such as large scale tree plantations, intended to act as carbon sinks.

4.   Another question is whether to count forests and tree plantations against emissions.

5.   Arriaga and other officials are pushing plans for huge privately owned tree plantations, like those already operating in other southern states.

6.   Most of the companies are plantation firms, though some are pulp and plywood companies, which also develop tree plantations on previously logged land.

7.   Replacing an old-growth forest with a tree plantation, it says, causes changes so severe that it qualifies as an absolute loss of habitat.

8.   Wood products companies, he said, typically replace diverse natural forests with tree plantations, using one species of fast-growing tree.

9.   And hence, there may be a tendency for forests to be cleared to make way for new tree plantations.

10.   Forest-poor countries should create tree plantations for domestic wood consumption and improve forest management, it said.