Food and Agriculture
Plant Trees Not Just Seeds: Counteracting Deforestation
3–3:45 p.m. G.M.T.
The Think Tank
Google
Panel
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?
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