The Business of Planting Trees

Approximately 41 million trees are cut down every day—far faster than we are currently replanting them. The consequences of deforestation and other types of land degradation are severe, exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, and declines in ecosystem services that hundreds of millions of people depend on.

In response, governments around the world have committed to restore 160 million hectares—an area larger than South Africa. But it will take more than government action to execute on these commitments; the private sector has an important role to play, too.

https://global.nature.org/content/the-business-of-planting-trees-a-growing-investment-opportunity?src=social.multiple.site_globsol.cam_stake.link_report.d_jan2018.info_trees

photo credit: James Whitesmith

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