Tree Planting Counterproductive to Mitigation
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•Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes - Nature Geoscience
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In northern boreal and Arctic regions, tree planting results in net warming due to increased surface darkness (decreased albedo) This counteracts potential mitigation effects from carbon storage in areas where biomass is limited and of low resilience.
We call for a systems-oriented consideration of climate solutions that are rooted in an understanding of Earth system processes that affect radiative balance.
Aðgerðaáááætlun í loftslagsmálum 20182030 ( Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources , 2018 ). Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation’s CO2 removal benefits.
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 .
The influence of vegetation and soil characteristics on active-layer thickness of permafrost soils in boreal forest soils in Canada 's boreal boreal forests.
The impact of climate change on the Arctic tundra productivity and CO2 exchange exchange is discussed in the World Resources Council .
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