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Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.
Nigeria’s forest resources have dwindled and are in danger of disappearing in a few decades if nothing is done to save them.
Smallholder farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Deliberate steps are required to support them and boost agricultural output,
Plantations of exotic trees from the mid-19th century onwards devastated Indian ecosystems.
The BlackRock climate fund is a start, but New Zealand needs a comprehensive approach to tackling its various environmental and economic vulnerabilities to the climate crisis.
How to reforest the Emerald Isle without simply turning it into a conifer plantation.
The best thing to do is to stop emitting carbon. However, preserving a safe climate will likely require us to go further.
Ghana’s government should shift to a community-based and voluntary approach to forest restoration and conservation
The answer lies in silvopastoralism, an agricultural method that attempts to mimic natural forest ecosystems with livestock added into the mix.
Carbon has overshadowed forests in climate policies, leading to practices that appear green but actually harm forests.
Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa are covered by savanna and grassland, which provide important ecosystem services that would be lost should they be converted to forests.
Tree planting projects that use non-native trees risk releasing more carbon back into the atmosphere, undermining efforts to fight climate change.
Although China’s tree-planting efforts have increased carbon sequestration for climate mitigation and protected the soil from erosion, they have also led to drastic water shortages.
Planting any tree is more important than planting a particular tree when it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Ecological literacy is needed to guide global tree planting initiatives to avoid damaging some ecosystems.
These technologies could turn into a powerful tool for fighting global warming, and they have the potential to address historical climate injustices.
Planting trees is a popular way for companies to clean up their image. Unfortunately, it may cause more problems than it solves.
China has successfully implemented afforestation to counter desertification. But, today, it faces another risk: its waters are declining.
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Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor, Forest Resources Management, University of Ilorin
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Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Biogeography, The University of Edinburgh
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Academic Officer, Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), United Nations University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Tropical Ecology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and Resources (UNU-FLORES), United Nations University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Canterbury
