In Brazil in particular if the money put into tree plantation was instead put in to funding enforcement against illegal deforestation it would make orders of magnitude more impact.

Study refereneced: Valuing the functionality of tropical ecosystems beyond carbon - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.012

The real info is in the last paragraph:
Instead, we should divest from fossil fuel infrastructure and push world leaders to hold polluting industries accountable. A recent report from the International Energy Agency (The path to limiting global warming to 1.5 °C has narrowed, but clean energy growth is keeping it open- https://www.iea.org/news/the-path-to-limiting-global-warming-to-1-5-c-has-narrowed-but-clean-energy-growth-is-keeping-it-open) outlined how clean energy investments showed the most promise for averting the worst of climate change. “Removing carbon from the atmosphere is very costly. We must do everything possible to stop putting it there in the first place,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a statement (Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says - https://gizmodo.com/carbon-capture-tech-hype-is-fizzling-out-iea-says-1850874857).

I thought Gizmodo died with the rest the of that portfolio.

I miss Splinter.

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