The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers
#UK #Environment #ClimateChange #CarbonBudget #UKNetZero #ClimateAction #SustainableFarming #DietShift #Afforestation #FoodSecurity #GreenFuture
https://the-14.com/the-uk-must-make-big-changes-to-its-diets-farming-and-land-use-to-hit-net-zero-official-climate-advisers/

By 2025, Kazakhstan’s ambitious afforestation efforts will cover 40% of the dried-up Aral Seabed with saxaul forests, revitalizing the fragile ecosystem and combating one of the world’s worst environmental disasters https://timesca.com/kazakhstan-to-plant-nearly-half-of-its-dried-aral-seabed-with-saxaul/ #Kazakhstan #Afforestation #EnvironmentalConservation #SaxaulForests #AralSea #EcoRestoration #SustainableForestry #Eurasia #CentralAsia

A new food and energy crop to replace dying citrus groves

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/10/ancient-pongamia-tree-breathes-new-life-into-sustainable-aviation-fuel/

A new food and energy crop to replace dying citrus groves

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/10/ancient-pongamia-tree-breathes-new-life-into-sustainable-aviation-fuel/

Interest in pongamia-based SAF is picking up

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/10/ancient-pongamia-tree-breathes-new-life-into-sustainable-aviation-fuel/

Interest in pongamia-based SAF is picking up

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/10/ancient-pongamia-tree-breathes-new-life-into-sustainable-aviation-fuel/

Mangrove trees meet, and beat, hard infrastructure for coastal resilience

#trees #forests #reforestation #afforestation #greeninfrastructure #infrastructure #nature #natural #conservation #natureconservation #resilience #sustainable #sustainability #coastal #coasts #florida #climatechange #floodcontrol

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2024/mangrove-planting-programs/815236

Mangrove trees meet, and beat, hard infrastructure for coastal resilience

#trees #forests #reforestation #afforestation #greeninfrastructure #infrastructure #nature #natural #conservation #natureconservation #resilience #sustainable #sustainability #coastal #coasts #florida #climatechange #floodcontrol

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2024/mangrove-planting-programs/815236

Forests can't be used in NDC (nationally determined contribution).Forests are in adaptation mode, that is, death by drought, bugs, fires, until new ecosystem members have moved in long after °C is stabilized.
Trees adapt to longer growth seasons, higher temperatures, over-fertilisation by CO2. This means less water and nutrients and makes them unhealthy.

Trees only park our CO2, then they burn.

#Koutsodendris et al 2020 counted pollen at Lake Ohrid, Albania.
Look at the gap between rising °C vs rising pollen count for temperate/mesophilus trees .

Adapting to a new climate takes time, even with seed-carriers and migration corridors: 1000yrs until new ecosystem members have moved in and adaptation to a new stable climate is accomplished.

But we don't have migration corridors. We have settlements and agricultural wastelands with pesticides everywhere.

Also, sinks start outgassing once ppm drops. So if your #NDC include negative emissions by DACS or CCS to undo a temperature #overshoot, to really remove 1t CO2 from the system, you must remove 1.5t once we're in the negative emissions phase.

Outgassing is a physical process to balance changes in atmosphere composition. But of course, when ppm drops considerably, it also changes °C and regional climate and hydrological cycles – again. So your ecosystem is going into adaptation mode all over again. Forests burn.. again.

Overshoot scenarios aren't a good idea, even if we had working technology and concepts. CO2 removal adds another stressful phase and prolongs adaptation to changing factors – for us and our human systems, and for ecosystems on land and in the ocean.

China to Help Kazakhstan Plant Artificial Forests on the Aral Sea https://timesca.com/china-to-help-kazakhstan-plant-artificial-forests-on-the-aral-sea/ #Eurasia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan #China #AralSea #Environment #Afforestation #ClimateAction

The #trees are watching us. And they will rightly judge us by our action. This #pine callus appears to see and call out our callous attitude to #Nature and the #Environment. I see a #tear forming. #Woodland #Afforestation #Rewilding

_The Evening Post_, 11 Jan 1924:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
…
Professor W. B. Thomson, of Toronto University, Canada, who is on a world tour investigating methods of afforestation and botanical matters generally, recently visited several districts in the North Island. After seeing the afforestation work done in the #Rotorua district, Professor Thomson pronounces it to be ahead of anything of its kind in the British Empire. He speaks with a knowledge of what has been done in Canada, South Africa, and Australia.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240111.2.40
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Afforestation #ExoticForests #Agriculture

"Global #carbon #emissions from #FossilFuels have risen again in 2023 – reaching record levels, according to new research from the Global Carbon Project science team.

The annual Global #Carbon Budget projects fossil carbon dioxide ( #CO2) emissions of 36.8 billion tonnes in 2023, up 1.1% from 2022.

Fossil CO2 emissions are falling in some regions, including #Europe and the #USA, but rising overall – and the scientists say global action to cut fossil fuels is not happening fast enough to prevent dangerous #ClimateChange.

#Emissions from land-use change (such as #deforestation) are projected to decrease slightly but are still too high to be offset by current levels of #reforestation and #afforestation (new forests).

The report projects that total global #CO2 #emissions (fossil + land use change) will be 40.9 billion tonnes in 2023.

This is about the same as 2022 levels, and part of a 10-year “plateau” – far from the steep reduction in emissions that is urgently needed to meet global #climate targets."

https://globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-co2-emissions-at-record-high-in-2023/

#Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Cop28
#GlobalCarbonBudget

#Afforestation & #reforestation may be strategies to mitigate GHG #emissions & #globalwarming. China's "Grain for Green Program" may induce #carbon sinks that offset 1-2% of the extensive #CO2 emissions from all of #China in 2060: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107272 #climatechange #landuse

The government's afforestation scheme amounts to nothing more than a bailout of the timber industry. Presenting this piece of greenwashing as progress only serves to undermine belief in climate action.

Read ARG-GL's statement on the subject below

#ClimateChange mitigation is hindered by weak links btwn research, policy & societal action. #Plantbased diets, #foodwaste reduction, judicious #fertilizer management & #afforestation have been hampered. Political action to support these strategies is key: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00807-9

PROTECT OUR FORESTS

The #ForestConservationAmendmentBill will put our #ecology severely in danger by #declassifying 197,159 sq. km of #forests, which is 15% of #India ’s forest cover, making it lose protection and leaving it open for destruction through #afforestation, #drilling, replacing forests with #zoos, among other things. It will also exempt a large number of projects from the clearance process

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/scientists-urge-indian-government-to-halt-forest-conservation-amendment-bill-101689706309919.html

We absolutely need more trees, but we need none of the monoculture spruce that makes up the bulk of our tree-covered areas.

I use the phrase "tree-covered area" because a spruce plantation is not a forest.

#Afforestation #ClimateBreakdown

RTE news : Concerns raised over 'all time low in tree planting'

http://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2023/0613/1388917-tree-planting/