{"id":91711,"date":"2019-06-06T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co2"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:22:56","slug":"we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co2","title":{"rendered":"We Have Room to Add 35% More Trees Globally to Store 160 Billion Tons of CO2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is enough room to plant another 1.2 trillion trees on Earth. If we plant 1.2 trillion trees this could cancel out the last 10 years of CO2 emissions and sequester 160 billion tons of CO2.<\/p>\n<p>Above \u2013 Potentially possible tree density: <b>Additional trees in yellow.<\/b> (image: Crowther Lab \/ ETH Zurich) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" class=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co24.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-06-at-11.23.41-AM-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-06-at-11.23.41-AM-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-06-at-11.23.41-AM.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px)  100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/06\/we-have-room-to-add-35-more-trees-globally-to-store-160-billion-tons-of-co2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is enough room to plant another 1.2 trillion trees on Earth. If we plant 1.2 trillion trees this could cancel out the last 10 years of CO2 emissions and sequester 160 billion tons of CO2. Above \u2013 Potentially possible tree density: Additional trees in yellow. (image: Crowther Lab \/ ETH Zurich) Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}