At GoReusable, being official partners of the National Forest Foundation, we’re big into planting trees. Our aim is to plant 10 million trees by the end of 2025, with the help of our Plant One Tree Cup. We thought 10m was a big number and good goal but this week we’ve seen extinction rebellion are talking about planting 1 trillion trees. Did you see all the placards saying ‘Plant 1 Trillion Trees’?. Now that’s a big number.
Apparently scientists have worked out that 1 trillion trees need to be planted by 2050 to stop the environmental disaster.
The study, led by Prof Tom Crowther at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich university, was published in the journal Science assessing the potential of aiming for a trillion trees on the planet.
If we did this, this would potentially cut the atmospheric carbon pool by about 25 per cent, enough to stabilise the earths atmosphere. Crowther calls this “the best climate solution we have today”. Naturally the work has been received with some caution, as planting 1 trillion trees is a challenge, but surely a challenge worth meeting?
