Why we can't plant our way out of climate change

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 12:37 a.m.

Arguments are flowing for why New Zealand needs to do more than plant trees to be effectively fighting climate change. Newsroom senior political reporter, Marc Daalder, talks to Jesse about the experts he's interviewed for his latest work, which criticises the approach of offsetting carbon emissions by planting trees rather than reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses we produce.