Trees don’t last for ever. Why do you use tree-planting projects for offsetting?
• Climate Stewards aims to offer offsetting projects featuring renewable energy, energy efficiency and tree-planting. We still include tree-planting because it is an affordable way of sucking CO2 out of the air and locking it up for some time. Tree-planting also has particular benefits for local people and wildlife. Plus it is effective at engaging people who are new to the climate change debate. True, there are risks such as fire and decay, but that means we should plant more trees to take account of such losses. • Significant reduction in CO2 emissions is our goal. But that too carries the risks of economic chaos, hunger, conflict, mass migration, police states… Our response has to be to proceed with care, reducing the risks in any way we can.
