Session Details: The New York Times Climate Hub

Food and Agriculture

Plant Trees Not Just Seeds: Counteracting Deforestation

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

The Think Tank

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Panel

Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Grant Reid - C.E.O., Mars Inc.
Sandra Knapp - Research Botanist, Natural History Museum, London
Jeffrey Gettleman - Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
Elizabeth Wathuti - Founder, Green Generation Initiative
Robin Millington - C.E.O., Planet Tracker

Planting a trillion trees to pull carbon dioxide from the air is an eye-catching and ambitious target. What projects can be designed to give local communities ownership of their reforestation goals? How can these programs also support livelihoods, and conserve and restore local biodiversity? And how can agricultural systems be transformed, more broadly, to stop the need for deforestation?

Nature, Technology

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