Why Tree Planting Is the Right Thing for Climate Change

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forest flishman has studied tree ing efforts that are being done for climate change. Flechman says the first step is to stop cutting down the healthy forests that we have left. We need to work with local people to make sure they benefit from the new trees and are invested in keeping them growing.

A few years back, 99pi producer Emmett FitzGerald brought us a beautiful story about peat bogs. Peat is essential for biodiversity and for the climate – it is really, really good at storing carbon. But like a lot of things we cover on the show, peat often goes unnoticed, in part because it is literally out of sight underground. We’ve noticed peat and carbon sequestration more and more in the news lately. Journalists have been brilliantly covering stories about the tree planting movement, private ownership of Scotland’s bogs, and the threat to peat in the Congo Basin. Couple that with more extreme weather happening in more places, we thought it would be a good idea to repeat this story.

For the Love of Peat