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Sometimes Cutting Trees Can Support Green Goals
Sometimes Cutting Trees Can Support Green Goals
  • By Aleksandar Ristevski
  • 3 Jun, 2020

In February 2020 Tesla had a few turbulent days trying to start a new European car and battery Gigafactory. First, a local environmentalist group called the Grüne Liga Brandenburg (Green League of Brandenburg) put forward ...

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Great Green Wall of China
Great Green Wall of China
  • By Aleksandar Ristevski
  • 5 May, 2020

Due to overpopulation, aggressive farming, deforestation China has a significant problem of land desertification. In the North of the country Gobi Desert, the driest and fastest-growing desert on Earth, taking over 3,600 km2 each year. ...

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How many trees do we need?
How many trees do we need?
  • By Aleksandar Ristevski
  • 26 Apr, 2020

Previously we calculated that we need to sequester 143.39 Gigatons of Carbon excluding next 12 years emissions. We mentioned that young trees do not sequester the same amount of Carbon as mature trees and ...

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What is the Deadline to Plant Trillion Trees?
What is the Deadline to Plant Trillion Trees?
  • By Aleksandar Ristevski
  • 25 Apr, 2020

The simple answer is ASAP (As Soon As Possible) if it could be possible correct answer would be - yesterday. The fact of the matter is - the young seedling tree does not have CO2 sequestering ...

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Trillion Trees
Trillion Trees
  • By Aleksandar Ristevski
  • 25 Apr, 2020

Early this year during Economic World Forum in Davos, Switzerland, many world leaders supported a plan to plant one trillion trees around the world. The idea is simple and cost-effective, but it ...

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How Much CO₂ we Need to Sequester?
How Much CO₂ we Need to Sequester?
  • By Aleksandar Ristevski
  • 24 Apr, 2020

Do you know what is the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere humanity needs to sequester to avoid global climate change catastrophes and possible extinction? Scientists have warned on many occasion that reaching 450 ppmv ...

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