NEW YORK, Oct 7 — Bill Gates is emphatic: “I don’t plant trees,” he declared recently, wading into a debate about whether mass tree planting is really much use in fighting...
Major tree planting commitments often involve agroforestry or plantations, where the trees will eventually be felled, releasing carbon. — Kletr/Shutterstock picNEW YORK, Oct 7 — Bill Gates is emphatic: “I don’t plant trees,” he declared recently, wading into a debate about whether mass tree planting is really much use in fighting climate change.
“I have dedicated the last 16 years of my life to making forests part of the climate solution,” wrote Jad Daley, head of the American Forests NGO.Mass tree planting schemes have been gaining ground for years as a way to suck carbon from the atmosphere at scale. Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez, an author of the paper, pointed to examples in southern Mexico and Ghana, where once diverse forests “have now transformed into homogenous masses”.
Among them is teak, which can overtake native species, “posing additional risks to native vegetation and the ecosystem”, said Aguirre Gutierrez, who is also a Natural Environment Research Council fellow.
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