Governments that make forest restoration promises they don't keep are accused of greenwashing.
Capturing carbon by increasing forest cover has become central to the fight against climate change. But there's a problem. Sometimes these forests exist on paper only - because promises have not been kept, or because planted trees have died or even been harvested. A new effort will now be made to track success and failure.
Tim Christophersen, until this month head of Nature for Climate with the UN Environment Programme, says that of the one billion hectares of landscape that countries have promised to restore worldwide "most" remains a promise rather than a reality. "The current model of plantation requires you to first have nurseries for which you need to procure building materials and then you need to procure sapling bags, barbed wire and other things needed for plantation and then transportation of everything.
According to the deputy director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization , Tina Vahanen, this problem is widespread, not confined to India. "The idea of plantation is sold to us as mitigation for climate change impacts, which is false," she says.
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