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Climate Action: 'Protect, Restore & Fund': Greta Thunberg, George Monbiot
Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions.’ Film by Swedish activist and Guardian journalist George Monbiot says nature must be used to repair broken climate. The Guardian, Sept. 19, 2019.
The protection and restoration of living ecosystems such as forests, mangroves and seagrass meadows can repair the planet’s broken climate but are being overlooked, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have warned in a new short film. Natural climate solutions could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as plants grow. But these methods receive only 2% of the funding spent on cutting emissions, say the climate activists.
Their call to protect, restore and fund natural climate solutions comes ahead of a global climate strike led by young people on Friday and a UN climate action summit of world leaders in New York on Monday. The film will be shown to heads of state and the UN’s climate and biodiversity chiefs in New York... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/19/greta-thunberg-we-are-ignoring-natural-climate-solutions
*Planting One Trillion Trees Could Stop Climate Change, Argues Study, 2019
https://www.dw.com/en/planting-1-trillion-trees-could-stop-climate-change-argues-study/a-49478494