Katrine Raundrup

Nov 7, 2024 | nature.com | Jeppe A. Kristensen |Isabel Barrio |Efrén López-Blanco |Yadvinder Malhi |Katrine Raundrup

AbstractPlanting trees has become a popular solution for climate change mitigation, owing to the ability of trees to accumulate carbon in biomass and thereby reduce anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 enrichment. As conditions for tree growth expand with global warming, tree-planting projects have been introduced in regions of the highest northern latitudes. However, several lines of evidence suggest that high-latitude tree planting is counterproductive to climate change mitigation.