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View all search resultsTaking better care of nature could absorb many more climate-changing emissions - but will only work if big companies simultaneously slash their own emissions and focus on boosting biodiversity, not just planting trees.
The potential for a global tree-planting drive to curb climate-change risks has been overestimated, scientists warned, flagging issues with maps and data used in a recent study and urging greater efforts to cut heat-trapping emissions by other means.
The initiative emerged after plant ecologist Akira Miyawaki of Yokohama National University, Japan, visited the conservation area of APP Sinar Mas subsidiaries in 2014. The professor recommended the planting of endemic species such as meranti, jelutong and other local species to speed up the restoration of damaged forests.