afforestation

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So ramping up afforestation – or tree planting - will not be an easy task.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

But researchers in England and France found that the tree-planting process, known as afforestation, faces insurmountable land use and financial challenges.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

They currently only remove 0.002 gigatonnes of CO2 per year from the atmosphere, compared to 3 gigatonnes through conventional options such as afforestation, and they are unlikely to significantly increase by 2030.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2024

And carbon removal schemes like those based on afforestation — planting trees that will store carbon as they grow — might last only a few years if a disease or forest fire comes along.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

In all of these countries afforestation takes place quickly and the cuttings on private holdings are made once in ten, twenty or twenty-five years.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)