The magic pizza pie of climate change solutions has several big fat slices marked “trees”. People have noticed, which is why we have trillion tree campaigns, billion tree campaigns and hundreds more.
Yet such well-intentioned efforts can do a lot of damage if not informed by science (just look at the disasters of Europe’s biofuels and biomass policies). Not every tree – or forest – is created equal.
That’s why this review of how best to deploy the “tree solution” is so useful. The authors have distilled surveys and papers into 10 easy rules for corporations, policymakers, communities, farmers, and ranchers to follow.
If you’re involved in a tree planting effort, how many of these rules is your project respecting? How easily can you adapt your project to ensure they are expected? And how risky is your project becoming because it’s ignored some of these foundational rules?
Moving forward, I really look forward to the day when every agroforestry or forestry project around the world takes these rules to heart. Maybe it should be a little laminated card to carry in one’s wallet!
The review is open access and full of nuggets. Enjoy!
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