In Fact: Is China’s reforestation a giant green washing project? [Video]

Five years ago, a paper published in one of the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed journals made headlines across the world. The authors used NASA satellite data to claim that at least one-quarter of the world’s green leaf area increase since the 2000s was due to Chinese tree planting efforts. Some celebrated, some couldn’t believe it. What went on here and are China’s newly planted forests as successful as they claim?

Part 1 – Understory

Let’s get the bad news over first: in the last century, humans have removed forests from the earth amounting to an area the size of the United States. And we continue to remove about a Bosnia-size worth of forested land every year. This could be disastrous for biodiversity and the climate. In many places, it already has.

Now the good: forest loss and recovery usually follows a U-shaped curve. Poorer nations with growing populations develop their economy via deforestation and the …

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