Planting forests
The world’s forests and seas form the earth’s great carbon stores. The Green Belt Movement of Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai (illustration) has 4000 local activist groups who plant trees – both to slow down climate change and to enable us to adapt to it as easily as possible. The movement believes that planting and protecting forests is a vital part of the battle against global warming.
Trees and other forest plants consume CO2 to grow and live. The more forest there is on the earth, the more CO2 will be bound up. This CO2 would otherwise exacerbate the greenhouse effect. The potential for forestation is great. The UN climate panel has estimated that in 2030 we could bind up to 50 times Norway’s emissions just through forestation.
Read more:
www.greenbeltmovement.org
