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“Time and time again, prominent organizations with the ear of our government have highlighted biomethane’s vital role in the [current] decade of decarbonization. While the UK’s net zero goal is suitably ambitious, it cannot be achieved without immediate and significant investment in sustainable technologies, such as anaerobic digestion (AD). It is, as the Committee on Climate Change says, a no-regrets option.”
— Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA)
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Tree plantations and temperate forests both rank high on the Drawdown list (#13 and #14) with high potential to store large amounts of carbon. Tree plantations on degraded land covered 294 million hectares globally in 2018 or about 726.5 million acres (1 hectare = 2.47 acres). Increasing that acreage by 112 to 174 million hectares would sequester an additional 22.2 to 35.9 gigatons (1 gigaton = 1 billion tons) of CO2 by 2050. Doing so would also mean less deforestation. The money spent to do so ($164-$260 billion) would be a distant memory when considering the profits ($2.1-$3.4 trillion).
