Biden Aims to Protect the Nation’s Old Trees to Help with Carbon Removal
Biden will sign an executive order in Seattle today to protect forests as a way to soak up carbon emissions and reduce the effects of global warming.
Biden’s announcement caps off a week of Earth Day events that didn’t include any major new climate initiatives, but rather focused on restoring climate and environmental regulations removed by the Trump administration and expanding clean energy. “Older forests provide the most above-ground carbon storage potential on Earth, with mature forests and larger trees driving most accumulation of forest carbon in the critical next few decades,” the scientists wrote. “Left vulnerable to logging, though, they cannot fulfill these vital functions.”
The effort to use Mother Nature as a climate tool is reminiscent of the Trump administration’s featured policy to cut carbon emissions by planting more trees. Biden came into office with the boldest and most aggressive climate plan of any president in history and a pledge to spend $2 trillion on the effort. But that plan is mostly marooned in Congress, which has not advanced his proposed package of $500 billion in clean energy tax credits and spending.
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