Contribute to reducing the threat of climate change and global warming
One of the positive environmental impacts of planting trees and constructing tree plantations is that we help reduce climate change and global warming. Planting trees is a great and one of the ways to offset carbon footprint and become carbon neutral.
Being carbon neutral means removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as we put in. CO2 is absorbed by trees and other green plants than released into the atmosphere through consumption, transport and food intake. This is still not an exact science but we are working hard in environmental organizations throughout the world to agree on how to measure and put a price on carbon dioxide uptake of various kinds.
However, what is clearly the starting point is that living trees are the dominant form of photosynthesis on Earth. Photosynthesis is what happens in all living green plants, which absorb carbon dioxide and returns it into the ground where it belongs. Where it was before people dug it up and began to burn it. Everything that is burning emits carbon dioxide and that includes wood, coal, oil, gas, peat and more. The problem is that the earth’s plants did not have time to pick up these toxins as quickly as we burn them and releases them.
One way to help improve the environment of our planet is to plant an incredible amount of trees to compensate for all the trees that have already been devastated and those we continue to deforest. We can never recover rainforests and other natural environments, but every little contribution towards making the semi desert green again makes a difference.
Deforestation in the tropics is currently at a rate of 123,000 square kilometers per year. That is, it’s the difference between what you are cutting down and replanting and at an entirely unsustainable rate. This corresponds to a square area of 350 kilometers on all sides, which in turn is equivalent to half the UK each year.
In other parts of the world people are trying hard to have a higher rate of tree replanting, but on a worldwide basis the net loss is still 94,000 square kilometers per year. This represents the area of Iceland – each year!
It is at this rate, the forest is lost on earth and on top of this, we also increase our consumption and our emissions; an equation that simply does not add up today.
Become carbon-neutral and get a certificate
If you adopt 6 trees a year (1 planted in Kenya and 5 planted in the Philippines from each adopted tree), you contribute to capture approx. 18 ton of CO2. In addition, you will also help improve the relationship between tree planting and tree felling, which currently is at the ratio of 1 to 28 in of Africa. In other words, for every 28 trees cut only one is being planted.
Calculations, which the United Nations has compiled, shows that the usage of carbon dioxide per person per year is approximately 5-10 tons depending on where you live in the world, or 10-20 tons per family per year. By planting 36 trees, you will help capture about 18 tons of carbon per year. This means that by adopt 6 Better Globe trees per year, you are not only getting carbon neutral as a family, but you will actually have a positive addition by neutralizing more carbon than you use.
Climate change and global warming