
While it cannot replace a desperate need to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases, ETH-Zürich Professor Tom Crowther reported to the BBC how much our survival is connected to planting trees.
“Even if tree planting began today, it would take 50 to 100 years for the new trees to soak up those 200 gigatonnes of carbon, he told The Guardian. And, as National Geographic pointed out, the researchers found that potential tree-planting land could shrink by one-fifth by 2050 even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as some tropical areas could grow too hot to support forests.”
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