February 3, 2012

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Carbon, Community, Cooperation

The world is losing 25 billion trees a year and not even one billion trees are replanted. Reforestation projects remove and sequester CO2 from the atmosphere; not only do they help people plant trees and forests, they also bring participating communities important economic and social benefits. The world’s most degraded lands can often be saved by converting carbon into things people need such as food, forage, bio-fuels, clothing, shelter, medicines, and organic fertilizer. By doing so, carbon is returned to the soil.

The major carbon dioxide emitting economies, their industries, and citizens are now under increasing pressure to comply with internationally evolving agreements that seek to reduce GHGs in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. Cooperation on the financing and implementation of large scale reforestation projects is an efficient, low cost and win-win approach for people, organizations and countries to jointly meet the challenge of successfully making a peaceful transition to a globally sustainable lifestyle.

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