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\"B<\/a>There was an interesting, encouraging but realistic article in the Guardian today on tree planting.\u00a0 The easiest way to cut carbon emissions is not to produce the carbon in the first place.\u00a0 One if not the easiest way to do this is in the area of agriculture and one of these areas is forestry.\u00a0 It seems as part of the Paris climate agreement countries have pledged to plant trees and lots of them.\u00a0 China has pledged to plant a forest the size of Ireland.\u00a0 Countries in latin America have pledged to restore 20M Ha of damaged forset and in Africa pleageds have been made to restore 100M Ha. \u00a0 India has said they will plant 13M Ha hectares.\u00a0 Last year volunteers made a start on this planting over 66 million trees in one day<\/a> A whole heap of other countries in Europe have also made pledges.\u00a0 Worldwide its now 120 countries.<\/p>\n

There are many good reasons for planting trees.\u00a0 These include wellbeing (mental health benefits, physical health benefits (from natural products), but also other tangible physical benefits.\u00a0 These include creating or increasing rainfall and holding soil together.\u00a0 Trees also act as windbreaks and can be used for fuel.\u00a0 Chopping forests down risk creating desert.\u00a0 I saw this first hand over 20 years ago in Sumatra.<\/p>\n

So why the enthusiasm?\u00a0 Its easy to see governments see this as an easy win.\u00a0 In principle planting trees is not unpopular.\u00a0 We need some caution though.\u00a0 Mistakes have been made in the past.\u00a0 In the UK monocultural plantations of non native species were planted by government.\u00a0 These proved unpopular.\u00a0 In addition private forests in the UK have been badly managed.\u00a0 This is an issue with new planting it needs looking after.\u00a0 I have written before about a carbon offsetting tree scheme by a rock star in a very remote part of Scotland,\u00a0 the very young trees had all died.\u00a0 In the developed world the best way is to involve local populations.\u00a0 This has been done successfully in Mali and Pakistan using a system agriculture called agroforestry.\u00a0 In this crops and trees are interspersed.<\/p>\n

Another note of caution.\u00a0 Whilst deforestation has slowed in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia a good deal of logging (illegal or legal) is still taking place, mainly to plant monoculture such as palm oil.\u00a0\u00a0 The easiest forest is the one still standing not the one to be planted from scratch.<\/p>\n

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