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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
Four years after Benioff announced the trillion trees initiative, Bloomberg takes a look at how it's going.
Aug 12, 2024
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Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet. Part I: Marc Benioff’s trillion trees
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“If no one had ever said, ‘Plant a trillion trees,’ I think we’d have been in a lot better space”
Says Thomas Crowther, AKA Mr. Trillion Trees himself
Dec 21, 2023
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“If no one had ever said, ‘Plant a trillion trees,’ I think we’d have been in a lot better space”
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Sadhguru: How not to save soil
In March 2022, an Indian mystic called Sadhguru set off from London on a 30,000 kilometre motorbike journey to Coimbatore, India.
May 27, 2022
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Sadhguru: How not to save soil
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Massive tree planting schemes are not the answer to the biodiversity and climate crises
In October 2021, the first phase of the postponed Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) took place online.
Jan 12, 2022
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Massive tree planting schemes are not the answer to the biodiversity and climate crises
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A trillion trees: A backstory featuring Felix Finkbeiner and Thomas Crowther
“I hate that people keep asking me: where are you going to plant these trillion trees?” Thomas Crowther told The Guardian recently.
Oct 8, 2021
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Chris Lang
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A trillion trees: A backstory featuring Felix Finkbeiner and Thomas Crowther
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Greenpeace rejects the one trillion trees campaign: “Treewashing the climate crisis with promises of large tree plantations”
“Planting trees is now advocated by a wide range of stake-holders, often in the form of large-scale, monoculture tree plantations.
Mar 20, 2020
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Chris Lang
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Greenpeace rejects the one trillion trees campaign: “Treewashing the climate crisis with promises of large tree plantations”
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One trillion trees. A naive and dangerous distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
At its meeting in Davos last month, the World Economic Forum launched a new initiative to plant one trillion trees.
Feb 22, 2020
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Chris Lang
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One trillion trees. A naive and dangerous distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
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Remember the headlines: Tree planting is our “most effective climate change solution”? Well, it would take 200 years, and we can only plant…
“The restoration of trees remains among the most effective strategies for climate change mitigation.” That’s the first line from the abstract of a July…
Oct 5, 2019
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Remember the headlines: Tree planting is our “most effective climate change solution”? Well, it would take 200 years, and we can only plant 10% of the area, says Tom Crowther of ETH-Zürich
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Planting trees and restoring forests is not going to stop climate breakdown. “We need a rapid end to fossil energy use precisely because we…
By now you will have seen the headlines.
Aug 8, 2019
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Planting trees and restoring forests is not going to stop climate breakdown. “We need a rapid end to fossil energy use precisely because we want to preserve the world’s existing forests”
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