This policy review examines forestry in the context of climate-goals-related land interventions that reorganise the use and, as the report aims to show, the value and ownership of rural land in Ireland. The key policies start with the EU’s Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) framework, which, by accounting for forests as carbon removals towards member states’ binding climate targets, creates national demand for forest carbon sinks and reorganises rural land around its measurable climate value. That quantified climate value is subsequently translated into monetary investment value, which, in Ireland, takes the form of state subsidies through the Climate Action Plan and Forestry Programme, turning this accounting demand into afforestation targets stimulated by grants and premiums.