PARIS, France — Countries have pledged to plant billions of trees to tackle climate change, but half the time letting forests regenerate naturally would be a better option, a major study said Wednesday.
'There are places where it makes sense to plant trees, and there are places where it makes sense to naturally regenerate forests,' Jacob Bukoski, one of the authors of the study told AFP.'If you want to sequester carbon at the lowest cost, some combination of natural regeneration and plantations makes a lot of sense,' said the researcher at Oregon State University in the United States.
Fast-growing single species plantations — also called monoculture — are more costly to implement but provide revenue from the production and sale of wood products.When the wood is harvested, a portion of the carbon stored in the trees is released into the atmosphere — but the rest is trapped in the timber.Naturally regenerated forests grow more slowly but are more biodiverse and store a greater amount of carbon over a longer time period.
Forest Regrowth Can Be Better Than Planting Trees Study
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