House Republicans roll out new legislative platform on policies to combat climate change, including a bill to support a global effort to plant one trillion trees.
-- supported by the World Economic Forum -- and adapt U.S. forest management practices with the goal of capturing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
President Donald Trump holds a news conference at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2020.President Donald Trump recently announced the U.S. would support the initiative at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland., highlighting that it can both release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and eliminate the opportunity for those trees to capture more carbon.
MORE: Trump administration moves to change landmark environmental law to speed up infrastructure projects The bill is part of the first phase of the Republicans' climate initiative focused on capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, both through new technologies and natural sources. The other three bills announced this week would promote more research on carbon-capture technologies and uses for carbon and give permanent status to a tax break for companies that use the technology.
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