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Scientists call for more tree planting

If an extra four per cent of the United Kingdom’s land were planted with new woodland over the next 40 years, it could be locking up ten per cent of the nation’s predicted greenhouse gas emissions by the 2050s.
That’s the view of an expert, independent panel of scientists who today published the first national assessment [...]

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important issue: land ownership and yes poverty is the first, short term goal and since budgets are always tight, the number a trees per (family) unit should be limited. For big land owners and governments there should be another scheme (REDD+?). My idea is that the farmer/planter owns the tree, even on other’s land, but [...]

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3) Who can participate and will be able to make a living out of tree planting?
The scheme is open to all, young and old, poor or rich, female or male, but
In practice first in those countries for which funding can be found and the government is willing to cooperate. In (oil) rich countries governments can [...]

draft text with letter to ACT Afghanistan/Texas

Dear ACT,
Thanks, your mail is most welcome, it is the right time to start a pilot project in Afghanistan. Here in Sri lanka we are doing tree planting projct with young poeple of the YZA, but further we are still in a pioneering stage.
Already my mind is working overtime to work out a viable plans [...]

draft plan, looking for green writer!

Dear ACT,
Thanks, your mail is most welcome, it is the right time to start a pilot project in Afghanistan. Here in Sri lanka we are doing tree planting projct with young poeple of the YZA, but further we are still in a pioneering stage.
Already my mind is working overtime to work out a viable plans [...]

Nature’s Remedy: Restoring the Forests can fight Global Warming—but only if left to Free Markets not Regulators,TIME magazine, December

I found this quote which surprised me positively:
In addition, we can reduce and offset up to 20% of our emmissions by conserving and restoring the world’s forests. Forests not only store twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere, but constantly reabsorb it through photosynthesis. Nature’s carbon-storage technology is extraordinarily efficient and can [...]

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