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The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors of a peer-reviewed opinion paper publishing
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Bill Gates is emphatic: "I don t plant trees," he declared recently, wading into a debate about whether mass tree planting is really much use in fighting climate change. The billionaire
Environmentalists argue that commercial planting of trees to offset carbon emissions might come with costs for biodiversity and other ecosystem functions. Instead, they advocate for conserving and restoring intact ecosystems in their study published in the journal Cell Press.