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Can planting trees really stop climate change? | Thomas Crowther

The TED Interview

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The Challenge of Getting the Trees Back

The approach for effective restoration varies everywhere around the world, depending on the system that's already there. The real challenge is about making the economic incentives so that nature restoration is a viable option and a sustainable option for local communities. Some places you need agra forestry. Others you need halistic management of farms. Others you need to just put a fence round that garden and don't let the sheep go there,. cause they'll eat down all your trees er. But it's ultimately building that massive patchwork of of networke connections where people are doing different practices all over the world to allow nature to recover and benefit all of us.

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