Millions more trees isn’t the climate fix New Zealand thought
Major corporations have spent the last four years taking advantage of generous incentives to spearhead a forestry boom to reduce the country’s carbon footprint — now it’s set for a radical overhaul
Since 2019, the country has added some 175,000 hectares (432,000 acres) of forests, almost all of it the fast-growing, carbon-sucking pinus radiata pine
Of all the solutions for a warming world, “plant more trees” seems pretty obvious.
But in New Zealand, which tested that premise by linking incentives for forestry development with its emissions trading scheme, the results have been more controversial and less effective than climate advocates hoped.
