Afforestation-Comparison

Afforestation, reforestation and the wider “land sink” bucket Afforestation — planting trees where there were none in recent history — and its close cousin reforestation (replanting where forest was recently cleared) remain the largest single category of carbon removal sold today, by both tonnes issued and dollars transacted. The pitch is straightforward: trees pull CO₂ out of the air through photosynthesis and lock a fraction of it into wood, roots and soil organic matter for as long as the forest stands. The complications are equally straightforward: forests burn, get cut, get sick, and the carbon goes back. For a senior buyer comparing pathways, the central question is not whether trees sequester carbon — they obviously do — but how durable, additional and well-measured a given project actually is, and how that compares to engineered alternatives at 10–100× the price per tonne. ...