We’re going to need a bigger planet

 

As oil and gas companies have begun to respond to the climate change agenda, some are placing particular emphasis on planting trees to meet zero carbon targets. But their sums don’t add up. LAPFF analysed the proposals and discovered that we don’t have enough room on earth for the trees they say they are going to plant.

New forest is intended to be a solution for emissions that can’t be deal with by substitution, not to preserve the output of the fossil fuel industry.