{"id":3669,"date":"2019-07-09T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"scientists-confirm-tree-planting-is-our-best-solution-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/09\/scientists-confirm-tree-planting-is-our-best-solution-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Confirm Tree Planting Is Our Best Solution to Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/author\/luciennecross\/\"><strong>Lucienne Cross<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New research suggests that tree planting isn\u2019t just a\nfeel-good volunteer activity \u2014 it could actually be the cheapest and most\neffective tool against global warming that exists. While environmentalists have\nbeen encouraging tree planting for decades, there has been contradicting\ninformation about how well nations are adhering to their reforestation pledges\nand how much they are actually making a difference. A new study, however,\ncalculates just how many trees could be planted in a worldwide reforestation\neffort and how it would impact&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/tag\/climate-change\"><strong>climate change<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;if\nimplemented correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers concluded that if the entire world organized\nto plant trees in all available land that isn\u2019t existing farms or urban areas,\nthe new trees could capture two-thirds of all human-related&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/tag\/carbon-emissions\"><strong>carbon emissions<\/strong><\/a>. According\nto their calculations, there are 1.7 billion hectares available that could\nsupport 1.2 trillion additional trees. This area equates to 11 percent of the\nEarth\u2019s total land surface, or according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jul\/04\/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cequivalent to the size of the U.S. and China\ncombined.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/scientists-confirm-tree-planting-is-our-best-solution-to-climate-change\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Lucienne Cross New research suggests that tree planting isn\u2019t just a feel-good volunteer activity \u2014 it could actually be the cheapest and most effective tool against global warming that exists.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}