{"id":356,"date":"2019-07-05T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2019-07-05T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:12:23","slug":"an-easy-fix-for-climate-change-restore-forested-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Fix for Climate Change: Restore Forested Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 5, 2019 &#8211; Bloomberg&#8217;s Eric Roston reported that United Nations and European scientists have hypothesized that a mass restoration of forested land globally could help capture atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the report entitled &#8220;<em>The Global Tree Restoration Potential<\/em>&#8220;, the scientists mapped the global potential tree coverage to show that 4.4 billion hectares of canopy cover could exist under the current climate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By restoring largely-continuous canopy cover for an incremental 0.9 billion hectares, forested areas could increase by 25%, absorbing 205 gigatonnes of carbon or roughly 25% of projected atmospheric carbon pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientists noted that the world faces a race against time.  As the world&#8217;s climate continues to change, forests in the tropics continue to thin out as a result of changing growing conditions &#8211; a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-07-05\/this-easy-climate-fix-has-more-potential-than-previously-thought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"article (opens in a new tab)\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full report published in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"July 5, 2019 edition (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/365\/6448\/76\" target=\"_blank\">July 5, 2019 edition<\/a> of <em>Science<\/em> journal (fees may apply).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Karen Bigelow at KBigelow@BuyMuni.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 5, 2019 &#8211; Bloomberg&#8217;s Eric Roston reported that United Nations and European scientists have hypothesized that a mass restoration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,17,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-esg","category-science","wpcat-90-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-89-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bright-daylight-environment-240040.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}