Tree planting on a massive scale could suck millions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, but dubious offsetting schemes and poor land management threaten to derail the programme
That means achieving a balance between reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they produce and actively removing emissions from the atmosphere through carbon offsetting.
Almost all the pathways developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rely on methods to enhance land-based carbon sinks. Among them, carbon sequestration through tree planting is considered key to reducing emissions at a meaningful scale.