Petter Pilesjö
Professor
Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"
Författare
Summary, in English
Bastin et al (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) claim that 205 gigatonnes of carbon can be globally sequestered by restoring 0.9 billion hectares of forest and woodland canopy cover. Reinterpreting the data from Bastin et al, we show that the global land area actually required to sequester human-emitted CO2 is at least a factor of 3 higher, representing an unrealistically large area.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publiceringsår
2019-11-29
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Science (New York, N.Y.)
Volym
366
Issue
6469
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Ämne
- Climate Research
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1095-9203