TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”
AU - Skidmore, A.K.
AU - Wang, Tiejun
AU - de Bie, C.A.J.M.
AU - Pilesjö, Petter
PY - 2019/11/29
Y1 - 2019/11/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz0111
UR - https://ezproxy2.utwente.nl/login?url=https://library.itc.utwente.nl/login/2019/isi/skidmore_comm.pdf
U2 - 10.1126/science.aaz0111
DO - 10.1126/science.aaz0111
M3 - Article
VL - 366
SP - 1
EP - 3
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6469
M1 - eaaz0111
ER -