Monday, 29 July 2019

When tree planting actually damages ecosystems

Tree planting has been widely promoted as a solution to climate change, because plants absorb the climate-warming gases from Earth's atmosphere as they grow. World leaders have already committed to restoring 350m hectares of forest by 2030 and a recent report suggested that reforesting a billion hectares of land could store a massive 205 gigatonnes of carbon—two thirds of all the carbon released into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-news-blog/when-tree-planting-actually-damages-ecosystems