Trees are life!
Afforestation
There is mounting evidence that complex and old-growth forest ecosystems continue to sequester and store high amounts of carbon. Sustainable forest management can improve the climate-mitigation functions through the protection of remaining primary forests, by enhancing carbon stocks, and through afforestation and reforestation. Sustainably managed forests also have an important role to play in climate change adaptation.
How-to guides and links
- Campaign in your community (The Woodland Trust)
- Seeding the Future: International Day of Forests 2019 (UNEP)
- Eden Reforestation projects
- Plan for biggest new forest in England in 20 years launched (2016)
- Carbon Footprint: plant trees to offset your carbon emissions (UK)
- The Tree Council – planting trees near you
- Heart of England Tree Planting campaign 2019
- We Forest project (UK)
- Trees for Life (UK)
- MemorialTreeUK.com – Plant Trees in Memory UK
- Life for a Life Memorial Forests UK
Other resources
- China’s reforestation project in Mongolia is greening the desert (Time magazine video)
- Amazon reforestation: 73 million trees to be planted in tropical reforestation (TomoNews)
- Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find (Yale study)
- Emissions Gap Report 2017: Governments, non-state actors must do more to reach Paris Agreement (UNEP)
- MemorialTreeUK.com – Plant Trees in Memory in the UK …