How can afforestation be increased?

Choose to plant trees as part of your life. I think we have choices about what we focus on as a culture. While none of us has the power to decide that, we can decide for ourselves and those around us what activities we engage in. read more

Afforestation can expel considerable CO2 from the climate. Somewhere around 1850 and 2000, worldwide land-utilize change brought about the arrival of 156,000 teragrams (1 teragram = 1 billion kilograms) of carbon to the environment, for the most part from deforestation. read more

Afforestation is the establishment of a forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no previous tree cover. Many government and non-governmental organizations directly engage in programs of afforestation to create forests, increase carbon capture and carbon sequestration, and help to anthropogenically improve biodiversity. In the UK, afforestation may mean converting the legal status of some land to royal forest. read more

For the remainder of this chapter, afforestation is used to imply either afforestation or reforestation. To date, carbon sequestration has rarely been the primary driver of afforestation, but future changes in carbon valuation could result in large increases in the rates of afforestation (US EPA, 2005). read more