Europe cannot rely on its forests to help ward off the effects of climate change, experts warned Wednesday, calling instead for nations to protect their natural resources against the warming planet.
The world's current roadmap to mitigate climate disaster encourages EU nations to use their forests to help suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
But European scientists now say no approach to forest management complies with the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius (36 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
But European scientists now say no approach to forest management complies with the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius (36 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
"The amount of carbon captured over the next 90 years by trees — around 2 parts per million (ppm) — would be low compared to the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere under the most likely scenario — 500 ppm," Guillaume Marie, a climate and environment scientist at the University of Paris-Saclay, told AFP.
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