{"id":234,"date":"2018-06-22T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/?p=234"},"modified":"2018-06-22T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:29:13","slug":"money-can-grow-on-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/06\/22\/money-can-grow-on-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Money can grow on trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-235 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Money-on-trees-large-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Money-on-trees-large-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Money-on-trees-large-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Money-on-trees-large.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The ability of forests to combat climate change may be the most cost-effective way in the short term to close the emissions gap towards meeting the Paris\u00a0Agreement&#8217;s\u00a0 target of limiting global temperature rise to 2\u00a0\u00b0C and ideally to 1.5\u00a0\u00b0C. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/resources\/emissions-gap-report\">UN Environment&#8217;s Emissions Gap Report 2017<\/a>, current emissions reduction pledges from countries only equate to approximately half of what is required to avoid a 2\u02daC temperature rise, and only one third of what\u2019s required to limit warming to 1.5\u02daC.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights that limiting deforestation and improving forest management are key to reducing current emissions and avoid future emissions. These practices as well as afforestation\u2014planting new forests on lands that historically have not contained forests\u2014provide mitigation through carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) removal from t<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">he atmosphere and can\u00a0<\/span>be implemented at relatively low cost.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-236 size-medium\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Office-Trees-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Office-Trees-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Office-Trees.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canopy view from my office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">The impact: the UNFCCC Lima Hub indicates that in the last six years, 6.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide emission reductions have been reported from forests in Brazil, Ecuador, Malaysia and Colombia. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed these trees outside of my office window and now have a greater appreciation for how they help the planet!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability of forests to combat climate change may be the most cost-effective way in the short term to close the emissions gap towards meeting the Paris\u00a0Agreement&#8217;s\u00a0 target of limiting global temperature rise to 2\u00a0\u00b0C and ideally to 1.5\u00a0\u00b0C. According to the UN Environment&#8217;s Emissions Gap Report 2017, current emissions reduction pledges from countries only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/06\/22\/money-can-grow-on-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money can grow on trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}