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Petter Pilesjö

Petter Pilesjö

Professor

Petter Pilesjö

Comment on "The global tree restoration potential"

Author

  • Andrew K. Skidmore
  • Tiejun Wang
  • Kees de Bie
  • Petter Pilesjö

Summary, in English

Bastin et al (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) claim that 205 gigatonnes of carbon can be globally sequestered by restoring 0.9 billion hectares of forest and woodland canopy cover. Reinterpreting the data from Bastin et al, we show that the global land area actually required to sequester human-emitted CO2 is at least a factor of 3 higher, representing an unrealistically large area.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2019-11-29

Language

English

Publication/Series

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Volume

366

Issue

6469

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Topic

  • Climate Research

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1095-9203