Tech billionaire Bill Gates recently caused a stir by saying mass tree planting would not be of much use, prompting criticism from supporters of green efforts.
BANGKOK: “I don’t plant trees,” Bill Gates declared recently, wading into a debate about whether mass tree planting is really of much use in fighting climate change.
“I have dedicated the last 16 years of my life to making forests part of the climate solution,” Jad Daley, head of the NGO American Forests, wrote on X. “This kind of commentary can really set us back.” Carbon capture is “a small component of the pivotal ecological functions that tropical forests and grassy ecosystems perform”, they said in an article in the journal “Trends in Ecology and Evolution”.
Among them is teak, which can overtake native species, “posing additional risks to native vegetation and the ecosystem”, said Aguirre Gutierrez, who is also a Natural Environment Research Council fellow.
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