Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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This is literally my last question. On that very point, the purchase of forests has become a big thing because they are supposedly carbon sinks, but there are also very serious reports that a lot of our forests are actually carbon emitters because of the type of forestry – monoculture of Sitka spruce - or it is planted on the wrong kind of soil so it is actually bad for water quality rather than good for it. Who is going to assess the actual environmental quality of certain types of investment that might purport to be beneficial in terms of meeting climate and biodiversity targets, but in actuality may be very damaging for climate and biodiversity purposes?