Planting trees is the ultimate renewal strategy He also creates great hope in the sense that, if we plant another 1.2 trillion trees (i.e. another 160 trees for each person), we can bring down to earth 10 years of carbon-polluting gasses.
A single mature tree, meanwhile, may take in about 50 pounds of carbon dioxide per year. At this rate, it would take 640 trees per person to account for all American emissions, which adds up to more than 200 billion trees.
Once these trillion trees are fully grown, these new forests could capture between 488 and 1012 billion tons of CO2. That's about ¼ to ⅓ of all human CO2 emissions so far (2.2 trillion tons). But that's not all! Restoring forests achieves much more than just tackling the climate crisis.
A 2019 study from the Swiss Institute of Integrative Biology suggested that planting 1 trillion trees would dramatically reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and significantly help stop global climate change. So should we all get busy planting as many trees as possible, as soon as possible?
Planting a billion trees can help save the Earth from climate change and biodiversity loss. When we restore and conserve critical forests, we remove carbon and support biodiversity. A billion is a big number, but we know we can do it together. Help plant trees today!
About 15 trees offset the carbon dioxide from consuming a 2,000-calorie diet.
A tree needs about 9 m² space to grow, so 22 trees need 200 m² or half an acre. The average net absorption per tree is about 30 kg of CO2 per year, so it will take 22 trees to compensate for the emissions of one year's commute of 20 km per day.
By some estimates, a trillion trees could sequester some 200 gigatons of carbon over their lifetimes—equal to the annual emissions from more than 43 billion cars.
In addition to the carbon dioxide trees capture, they also help the soil capture and store carbon. Despite not doing such an incredible job as oceans do – absorbing around 90% of all carbon emissions and then suffering the impacts of ocean acidification – trees are extremely important to help stop climate change.
In summary, it can be concluded that the annual CO2 offsetting rate varies from 21.77 kg CO2/tree to 31.5 kg CO2/tree. To compensate 1 tonne of CO2, 31 to 46 trees are needed.
With the current rate of deforestation, the world's rainforests will be gone by 2100.
A world without trees would be bad… very, very bad. There are three trillion trees in the world. The timber industry currently cuts down 15 billion a year, so at current rates it would take at least 200 years to fell them all – probably much longer because a lot of virgin forest is hard to reach.
One of the best tree species for absorbing carbon is oaks, thanks to their large canopies, dense wood and long lifespans. Other top carbon-absorbing trees include the common horse-chestnut, black Walnut, London plane, and American sweetgum. However, variety is best.
A trillion seconds is 31,000 years.
That's longer than all of recorded human history. A trillion trees — if we planted them serially one right after another, taking only a single second to do so — would take 31,000 years to plant.
Trees for Life calculates 6 trees offset 1 tonne of CO2. So 1 Tree = 0.16 tonnes CO2.
Trees also store carbon dioxide in their fibers helping to clean the air and reduce the negative effects that this CO2 could have had on our environment.
Planting new trees is one of the most effective ways to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and limit global warming. As forests grow they remove CO2 from the air through photosynthesis, working as a natural reservoir to store carbon.
Not only do trees provide shade, but also keep the ground cooler due to this shade. This, in turn, helps reduce surface temperatures in multiple ways. By extrapolation, having trees in urban areas can help regulate temperatures and keep our cities cool in the face of global warming.
This means that if each person in the U.S. planted one tree per year it would offset only about 3 percent of the carbon dioxide they produce each year, after all 20 trees had matured. But, it would offset 26 percent for somebody in India.
The environmental impact of #TeamTrees is significant: according to a U.S. Forest Service analysis, planting 20 million trees will absorb 1.6 million tons of carbon – the equivalent of taking 1.24 million cars off the road for a year.
Broadleaved species – such as oak, beech and maple – are best because they have a larger surface area of leaves which generates more photosynthesis, whereas conifers absorb more heat.
Yellow Poplar – Also known as the tulip tree, the Yellow Poplar is considered as the top C02 scrubber as revealed by a New York City study.
Published the end of last month by Greenautoblog.com, the sourced list graphically states “It takes 240 trees to absorb the CO2 produced from one car in a single year.”
A return flight to New York would require 78 trees to be planted in order to offset 778KG of carbon emissions, while Brits hot-footing it to Dubai would have to plant 77 trees to offset their flights within a year of travelling.