In a COP28 conference room in Dubai, environmentalist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser to the United Nations and World Economic Forum's “One Trillion Trees” campaign, made a statement that one would not have expected a few years ago: He asked authorities to stop planting so many trees. “Mass tree planting is not the environmental solution that many have been led to believe,” argued Thomas Crowther, the initiator of the campaign, from the summit's event stage. “The ability of newly created forests to absorb carbon dioxide is often overestimated,” he emphasized, according to Wired, adding that at the same time it can also be harmful to biodiversity. But mostly, he stressed, massive tree planting is really harmful when it is carried out, as it often is, as a hedge, as an excuse, to avoid reducing carbon emissions. The great popularity of tree planting is due in part to Thomas Crowther himself. In 2019 his lab at the ETH university […]
Source: News Beast
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