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"About 215 million hectares of land – an area bigger than Mexico – could be
reforested naturally and without costly manual planting, our new research
shows.
This would allow us to offset around 23.4 gigatonnes of global carbon emissions
over the next three decades. That’s about 50 years worth of Australia’s carbon
emissions (assuming 2023 emission rates continue).
Extensive and effective forest restoration is crucial to mitigating climate
change and conserving biodiversity.
It’s vital we find cost-effective ways to get and keep more trees in the
ground. One way to do this is just to let forests grow back by themselves.
However, this isn’t possible in all deforested lands, as certain environmental
conditions are needed for this approach to work.
Our research identified land where this approach had strong potential."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
