Planting trees is no longer a solution to eliminate CO2

With such high concentrations in the atmosphere, the size of the plantations to absorb them would have to be so large that they would eliminate a third of the ecosystems

No, the trees can not be the hero who kills the bad guy (in this case carbon dioxide) and save the girl (who would be the planet Earth). If the idea is to plant more trees to reduce CO2 emissions, the strategy is wrong. This is confirmed by a study by the Potsdam Climate Impact Research Institute (PIK) published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Why can not it serve to sow the Earth with beautiful and vigorous trees? It is a problem of volume: with such high concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, the size of the plantations to absorb them would have to be so large that they would eliminate a third of the planet's ecosystems.

A quarter of the agricultural areas dedicated to crops would also disappear, which would be transformed into large reserves of biomass. The effect on the nutrition of the world population would be catastrophic.

However, the growth of biomass in well-selected sites, with a significant increase in irrigation and fertilization would serve to support the policy of reducing CO2 emissions, until the climate does not increase more than two degrees Celsius, as has been established in the Paris Climate Agreement.

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