'We have enough land for a trillion trees' - a podcast by RNZ

The first major deal of the COP26 climate summit was a pledge to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Kathryn speaks with highly acclaimed and award-winning British science journalist Fred Pearce, who has written about environmental issues and climate change for 40 years; not least about how forests have been cut and burnt at a rate many are approaching a tipping point, where they can no longer thrive, also threatening their ability to moderate global warming. But Fred Pearce is an optimist. His book A Trillion Trees - How We Can Reforest Our World offers hope. If we had a trillion more trees, he says, the damage could be undone. Fred Pearce writes the two things essential to restoring the worlds' forests is ensuring ownership is vested in the people who live in them, and giving nature room to grow. Fred Pearce has been New Scientist's environmental consultant since 1992, and contributes to the Guardian and the Washington Post.

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