riforestazione

Eight thousand kilometers long and fifteen kilometers wide.These are the impressive measures of the Great Green Wall, a tree belt that the African Union is building in order to counter the advance of the desert.The ambitious project aims to cross the African continent horizontally.From Senegal to Djibouti, the tree-lined line will pass through 11 nations with the noble aim of combat environmental degradation and poverty in the region.The costs have been estimated at approximately 33 billion dollars, of which 14 have already been invested.More than ten years after the official launch of the project, approximately 20% of the route has been completed.According to several sources, however, the initiative is already changing things for the better.Because, to be honest, the Great Green Wall is not just a work aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.More than a line, it is in fact a “restoration mosaic” which protects agriculture, offers jobs, promotes social cohesion an...

A new one research revealed that carbon credits from reforestation projects they don't compensate most of the emissions released by industrial activities.An international group of scientists, in particular, examined 26 sites where so-called REDD+ projects to combat deforestation were implemented on three different continents.The main doubt, it emerged, is how developers calculate the impact of their projects, to the point that around 94% of the carbon credits deriving from these it would not represent a real mitigation of climate-changing emissions. REDD+ is short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.The idea is that the "monetization" of threatened forests through the issuance of carbon credits helps to avoid further increase in global temperature.In turn, the sale of these credits should generate an income stream to reinvest in forest conservation, which advocates say is critical to protecting not only the carbon that biom...