@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-06-26 12:13 UTC
But no-one makes money out of staying out of the way while nature fixes carbon.
"Across the tropics, they found, only 6% of secondary forests reach two decades of regrowth.
"It's a constant cycle of deforestation," said Nathaniel Robinson, one of the authors and a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry. He added that their vulnerability "is likely tied to policy loopholes."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/policymakers-often-ignore-forest-regeneration-fight-against-climate-change-2025-06-24/
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2025-10-06 12:07
“Over the last five years, we’ve seen quite a few global assessments of reforestation potential. They often come with huge numbers, and they often come with a profound lack of ecological understanding. They might be very good at global modeling of satellite data, but they have no understanding of the reality on the ground.” “When you bring humans into landscapes and try managing landscapes where people live, all of a sudden, this stuff becomes very complex.” https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/the-world-is-banking-on-planting-billions-of-trees-to-slow-climate-change-but-the-math-doesnt-add-up/