afforestation

The researchers provide a tool practitioners and land managers can use to determine just how much of a problem albedo is for any reforestation or afforestation project on the globe.

Although some tree plantations involve reforestation of degraded land, in many cases they involve afforestation -- planting forests in undegraded and previously unforested regions such as grasslands.

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.

Among the projects is a massive afforestation initiative, where Iraq would plant 5 million trees across the country.

In India, we find something similar: large areas of grasslands earmarked for large-scale afforestation activities.