Plant a tree to slow global warming? If only it were so simple
to “grow, restore and conserve” a trillion trees. Australia wants to plant one billion over a decade. And in Canada’s 2019 federal election, the Liberals promised two billion by 2030.
The Liberals’ “2BT” program officially started in late 2020, with a promised investment of $3.2-billion over a decade. While benefits of trees are many – they sure make cities nicer places to live – climate is at the fore of all the recent promises. “There is no path to net-zero emissions that does not involve our forests,”All those new trees are supposed to deliver, by 2050, an annual cut to greenhouse gases of 12 megatonnes.
Tree planting as a carbon-reduction strategy has been hyped for years, with its serious limitations rarely acknowledged – remember, there is no anti-tree lobby. But a, looking at Microsoft’s net zero investments, including “offsets” against emissions, found decidedly mixed results. The report included a reminder that current strategies to abate global warming by removing and storing carbon represent “a tiny proportion” of required cuts to GHG emissions.
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