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How Reforestation Efforts Could Be The Key To Fighting Climate Change

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Most of us know that trees can help reduce the impacts of climate change by taking in carbon dioxide.

Most of us also know that scientists and environmental authorities have been sounding alarms for the better part of the last decade about the devastating effects of climate change.

Could trees store enough carbon, with a lot of help from us, to offset humanity's carbon emissions? What's the role of trees in our fight against climate change? And what's better left to other climate solutions?

We talk to an author whose new book explores whether or not serious reforestation efforts can really be an effective solution to reducing the carbon in our atmosphere.

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for developed countries, which have produced the vast majority of emissions, to pay for developing

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countries to adapt to climate change and prepare for climate-fueled extreme weather.

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That financing will be key to countries meeting their emission reduction goals,

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all part of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Another solution for meeting those goals globally could be out in the woods.

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Trees take in and store carbon. But could they store enough carbon with a lot of help from us

1:16.4

to offset humanity's carbon emissions? What's the role of trees in our fight against climate change?

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And what's better left to other climate solutions? I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the

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