Have we planted too much faith in trees?
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It seems we all love trees. Politicians, celebrities and big businesses love trees too. They\\u2019re seen as a natural climate fix because they eat carbon dioxide, one of the main gases that cause global warming.
The number of trees pledged in the coming years runs into the billions. Pakistan wants to plant more than three billion trees in the next couple of years. Ethiopia claims to have planted 350 million in one day! Neal Razzell and Graihagh Jackson try to see the wood from the trees amongst all these claims, and discover that a \\u2018forest\\u2019 planting campaign doesn't always end up creating the natural woodland we imagine it to be.
And to add to the urgency of the climate crisis, there's a new problem - a warming world may mean plants can\\u2019t suck up our carbon dioxide as effectively. Have we planted too much faith in trees? \\n \\nExperts:\\nDr Kate Hardwick, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew \\nProf Pedro Brancalion, professor of forest sciences at the University of S\\xe3o Paulo \\nDr Ben Ben Poulter, NASA Goddard Space Centre \\nRafael Bitante, SoS Mata Atlantica Project
Producer: Jordan Dunbar (London), Jessica Cruz (Sao Paulo) \\nResearcher: Soila Apparicio \\nEditor: Penny Murphy
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