Climate change: the trouble with trees | The Economist

Tree-planting has been hailed as a solution to climate change. But how much can trees really do to tackle global warming? See our research here: Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: Summer 2019 - More than 38,000 fires raged across the Amazon. Fires that were man-made. Over the past 50 years almost 17% of the world’s largest rainforest has been cleared. And globally deforestation has almost doubled in just five years. Since the start of hum