How Climate Change Strategies That Use Biomass Can Be More Realistic
Current plans for drawing down carbon dioxide call for more trees, grasses and crop residues than Earth can spare
Eric Toensmeier is a lecturer at Yale University and a senior fellow at Project Drawdown and the Global EverGreening Alliance. He is author of The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016). Credit: Nick Higgins
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