Quiz: Introduction to Climate Change and Forests

To stabilize the climate, the net carbon emissions need to drop to net 0 by…

In 2014 51 countries pledged to plant more than 3.5 million km² of forest by 2030 for the Bonn Challenge. How much of this pledged area is for monoculture plantations?

There is space for approximately 1 trillion more trees on Earth. If we managed to plant them, how much of the human-made CO2 emissions would they capture?

In addition to being important global carbon sinks, forests have a big impact on local and regional climates as well. So, cutting down tropical forests can raise nearby temperatures by as much as…

True or false: scientists have found a way to make Rubisco (an enzyme in photosynthesizing plants) more efficient, which will allow us to genetically engineer trees and other plants to capture carbon more efficiently.