Let forests grow old to store huge volume of carbon – study
www.theguardian.com
Report says cutting emissions should still be key priority as it cautions against mass monoculture tree-planting

For context, this would in theory allow about 1/3 historical cumulative emissions to be absorbed over a century or so. Which is a start, but nowhere near enough.

Also noteworthy: the bulk of forest-based carbon offsets have been fraudulent.

The paper is here

  • john_lemmy
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    8 months ago

    are you going to put it on arxiv or similar? It seems like an interesting read!