Curb Climate Change the Easy Way: Don’t Cut Down Big Trees
Old growth trees, some hundreds of years old, store enormous quantities of carbon in their wood, and accumulate more carbon annually
attention it deserves. Trees capture and store massive amounts of carbon. And unlike some strategies for cooling the climate, they don’t require costly and complicated technology.
Yet although tree-planting initiatives are popular, protecting and restoring existing forests rarely attracts the same level of support. As an example, forest protection was notably missing from the $447 million Energy Act of 2020, which the U.S. Congress passed in December 2020 to jump-start technological carbon capture and storage.