Forest loss in 2021 emitted as much carbon as India does
Climate solutions usually focus on putting less carbon into our atmosphere. That’s critical, but there’s another side to the carbon-in-carbon-out equation: forests.
They remove and store carbon. But last year, Earth lost millions of acres. And that emitted the equivalent of India’s carbon emissions.
Andrew Freedman wrote about it for Axios, and he joined Climate Cast this week to talk about his reporting.
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