Environment
Climate change: Why planting more trees won't save us
Expanding forests can help bring down the amount of CO2 trapped in the atmosphere. But restoring these invaluable ecosystems is a complex business, and planting new trees can sometimes do more harm than good.
Interviewees featured in this episode:
Kate Hardwick, coordinator for Millennium Seed Bank Partnership at the UK’s Royal Botanical Gardens
Susan Cook-Patton, senior forest restoration scientist at The Nature Conservancy
On the Green Fence on Apple Podcasts
- Date 01.07.2022
- Duration 27:16 mins.
- Author Neil King, Natalie Muller
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- Related Subjects Biodiversity, Forests, Podcast, How do we change? , COP 26: Everything you need to know
- Keywords reforestation, monoculture, plantation, timber, biodiversity, global heating, co2, forests, On the Green Fence, podcast
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