There are two elements. One is the amount that the forest is sequestering currently, and there's also the amount that the ecosystem is storing. These boreal ecosystems have accumulated carbon over thousands of years, especially the peatland systems. A big part of what carbon trading will hopefully achieve is ensuring that these natural ecosystems, these sinks, aren't lost; if we can have carbon trading to provide incentive to conserve these areas, it will maintain this carbon. It's not just the carbon that's been sequestered on an annual basis; it's also to ensure that the carbon that has been stored over thousands of years isn't lost through land use.
