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“Over one year a mature tree will take up about 22 kilograms of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere”*

*European Environment Agency: https://www.eea.europa.eu/articles/forests-health-and-climate-change/key-facts/trees-help-tackle-climate-change

“Nature is available now and we should use it … these [Nature-Based] solutions could deliver more than a third of the emissions reductions needed globally by 2030”*

*UN News: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1046752

Researchers believe Earth has 900 million hectares of tree restoration potential, with the potential to store 25% of the current atmospheric carbon pool.*

*Science 05 Jul 2019: Vol. 365, Issue 6448, pp. 76-79

Scientists estimate we have lost half of the 6 trillion trees that once were on Earth.*

*Science Magazine: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/earth-home-3-trillion-trees-half-many-when-human-civilization-arose#