Climate Adaptation
Forestry Giant Discovers Downside of Planting Millions of Trees
Chile’s $408 million subsidy program reduced native forests and made little difference to carbon capture
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A multi-decade state program to subsidize tree planting in one of South America’s wealthiest nations led to a loss of biodiversity and did little to increase the forests’ capacity to capture greenhouse gases.