Carbon is stored in trees and timber products, and sustainable forests are continually harvested and regrown.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognises that sustainably managed production forests that maintain carbon in growing trees while producing an annual yield of timber deliver a large, sustained climate change mitigation benefit.
Carbon dioxide is absorbed by trees and continues to be stored for the life of wood products. Even timber products in landfill are still storing carbon. Wood also has a smaller carbon footprint than building materials such as steel, aluminium and concrete.
We monitor how much carbon dioxide is stored in the forests we manage and how this changes annually. Our Sustainability Report estimates the volume of CO2 sequestered in State forests and stored long-term in harvested products.