Totnes: United Kingdom, bent and bent in concentration, three workers in Moorish trees, children in southwestern England, red seed pods and threw themseled into the bucket.
Seeds are placed in pots and covered on the ground, and those who germinate for the next two years will then be planted on the ground and hopefully grow into an adult tree.
With an unpleasant climate emergency threat, tree planting has become a fashionable choice for the government and companies that want to capture carbon dioxide emissions that pollute or reduce carbon footprints.
The crisis reached the main headline last month when the great power approved the COP26 climate summit in Scotland to end deforestation and curb the use of high polluting fossil fuels.
– ‘Great public interest’ – “There is a big public interest in tree planting,” Moorish director Adam Owen told AFP, talking with the ranks of young trees covered with green nets to protect them from tupai and other pests.
Amal, based in Totnes City in Devon, works with landowners to create new hedgerows and forests after years under investment in the UK.
And the demand is very booming so Owen hasn’t had to look for a new client since 2018.
“We developed quite significantly a few years ago we did around 6,000 trees (per year) and now we did 15,000 trees.” Our aspirations are 25,000 in several years.
“In three years, I haven’t had to ask one person whether we can plant for them.” Demand develops from companies, governments and individuals worldwide.
The Eden Project, US reforestal charity operating in nine countries, saw a surge in budget of $ 5 million in 2019 to $ 26 million this year, while it targeted $ 120 million in 2023.
Back in the UK, only 13 percent of the British region was covered in forests or Woodland.
Compared to the UE average of 39 percent, according to Eurostat data.
– 30 million trees per year – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to plant 30 million new trees per year from 2025 under the British plan to become carbon neutral in 2050.
However, the latest official data shows several ways to pursue only 4.2 million Trees are planted at 2020/2021.
At the same time, the land in a short supply because many of them have been built on or including protected habitats such as peat swamps.
Seeds are also rare and often have to be imported, especially from the Netherlands, but this runs the risk of importing harmful bacteria.
Moorical trees instead use local tree varieties used for soil conditions.
Planting trees is a complex process that takes time and cannot be considered a quick improvement for the climate crisis, experts said.
– Requests to cut new emissions – trees cannot be a substitute for global reduction needed by severe in emissions of dangerous pollution that worsen climate change.
“The most important thing we have to do is cut our emissions,” said Lukas Barley, a Woodlands specialist in the United Nations Trust that manages historical and rural traits.
“But there is still too much carbon in the atmosphere that’s where trees can play an important role” in absorbing carbon.
Business, individuals and the government still need to change their approach and refrain from what is called Greenwashing, he argues.
“It is not right for any organization to continue the business as usual and offset their emissions through tree planting,” he concluded.
Large commercial companies must invest to complement the efforts of small-scale players such as moorers.
But trees cannot resolve the ongoing climate crisis.
“Tree planting is not the solution that is only one solution,” Owen said.