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This would only lead to a constant shift in total CO2 emissions because there is only so much space you can utilize. When a plant dies it releases the CO2 back
by tomas789 7y ago
This would only lead to a constant shift in total CO2 emissions because there is only so much space you can utilize. When a plant dies it releases the CO2 back to the atmosphere. For the money, you can likely get higher CO2 abatement (i.e. close a coal fired power plant and replace it with renewables subsidy).
In the first case, you save the CO2 roughly equivalent to the total weight of the plants. In the pther case, you save x tonnes of CO2 every year.
- anon1253 7y agoTrue, but planting trees as a method for carbon sequestering is not a novel idea, and currently seems one of the better short-term options. Long term it's not that great for the reason you mentioned, and there is quite a lot of debate about it going on right now. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z for two more or less competing views.