Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?
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By Chris Lang (REDD-Monitor) and Simon Counsell (Rainforest Foundation UK) Unlike carbon capture and storage systems, trees do actually take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it – temporarily, at least. In theory, planting enough new trees, and allowing existing forests to grow and regenerate, could mop up some of the excess CO₂ now in the atmosphere. The idea has been around since the mid-1970s, when theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson
Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?
Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree…
Offsetting fossil fuel emissions with tree planting and ‘natural climate solutions’: science, magical thinking, or pure PR?
By Chris Lang (REDD-Monitor) and Simon Counsell (Rainforest Foundation UK) Unlike carbon capture and storage systems, trees do actually take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it – temporarily, at least. In theory, planting enough new trees, and allowing existing forests to grow and regenerate, could mop up some of the excess CO₂ now in the atmosphere. The idea has been around since the mid-1970s, when theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson