In November 2021, world leaders gathered at COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and pledged to end deforestation by 2030. One strategy governments and organizations rely on to restore forests is mass tree-planting campaigns, such as the World Economic Forum’s “One Trillion Trees” initiative. Yet these campaigns, found across the globe, are not as effective as they may seem, which environmental reporter Benji Jones argues in this essay. Jones points out that addressing the underlying issues that contribute to forest loss and climate change are “never as straightforward as planting lots of trees.”
Benji Jones, "The Surprising Downsides to Planting Trillions of Trees," Vox, 22 September 2021.
