Taking care of forests to better store CO2

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2023-09-25 20:35:02

To adapt different tree species to climate change, foresters from the National Forestry Office (ONF) have set up experimentation zones. 222846581/Marc – stock.adobe.com

Trees are a resource that the President of the Republic wants to use to achieve his objective of reducing gas emissions.

The forest is an essential asset for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Trees indeed represent a formidable carbon sink since 1 m3 of wood can store a ton of CO2. But a third of France is wooded. A resource that the President of the Republic wants to use to achieve his objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.This will mean that we will have to work with our foresters,” said Emmanuel Macron, presenting the broad outlines of ecological planning. At the start of the school year, he had already indicated that he wanted “that each student plants a tree from the sixth grade onwards”to help keep the goal “a billion trees planted in ten years”. An objective that is not unrealizable in absolute terms – we currently plant 80 million trees per year – but which requires serious help for the sector. “We lack seeds and also labor for…

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