This One Idea Can Save Us From Climate Breakdown, Say Campaigners | HuffPost

Pakistan has just planted 1 billion trees. China plans to create forests totaling the size of Ireland. And in Africa, EthiopiaNigerMali are among countries that strongly back the reforestation of degraded land. 

But there’s a snag. A new paper in the scientific journal Nature suggests that 45{5fc40a96f14c4a6aa4c2a32569b0a57dcc67c0b31eb04c341474283f11b6cdd2} of the land area that nations have so far pledged to allocate for carbon drawdown is being used to for commercial plantations.”

This One Idea Can Save Us From Climate Breakdown, Say Campaigners | HuffPost

But it’s being almost totally overlooked.