> Planting trees is also a tricky endeavor — if they don’t live for hundreds of years, they just wind up releasing all the carbon they’ve stored. The idea is,

> Planting trees is also a tricky endeavor — if they don’t live for hundreds of years, they just wind up releasing all the carbon they’ve stored. The idea is, or should be, not just to plant trees but to expand forests. Trees die and trees are born all the time in a forest and as long as that forest exists it acts as carbon storage. To create new forests, or even to expand existing ones, in an environmentally positive way and for the long term is tricky and probably requires government's support.