How can planting trees help?

Forests are the “lungs of the planet”. They play a vital role in nutrient and water cycling and exert a global scale impact on the climate.

Deforestation and associated activities currently account for almost one fifth of all carbon emissions, more than the entire transport sector.

Trees also absorb CO2 and store it in living tissue, which eventually takes that carbon out of circulation permanently when leaves and dead wood are decomposed into the soil.

Deforestation thus impacts on two levels, both directly emitting carbon and removing the ability to sequester it.