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February 16, 2024
Vietnam plants over 700 million trees in last three years
Afforestation is one of the most direct ways to increase carbon sink. Vietnam planted nearly 770 million trees in 2021-2023, achieving 77% of its goal to plant one billion trees in the 2021-2025 period.
January 10, 2024
Indonesia plan to restore nearly half a million acres of forests from oil palm plantations
Indonesian government officials recently ruled that 200,000 hectares of oil palm plantations are planned to be returned to the state and converted back into forests, and that figure may increase.
April 19, 2023
Finnish startup turns CO2 into carbon-negative concrete blocks that can trap emissions
Carbonaide, a spin-out from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has come up with a solution to reduce carbon footprint by transforming CO2 into carbon-negative concrete blocks that eventually become a carbon sink, or an object that is able to absorb
January 06, 2023
Australian forests could become net carbon emitters in coming decades, report finds
Forests in New South Wales are continuing to be cleared to a point that some could become net carbon emitters in coming decades, according to a report released in December by the New South Wales’ Natural Resource Commission.
December 28, 2022
Collapse of Finland's carbon sinks wipes out decades of efforts to reduce emissions
Finland could be subject to billions of euros in costs as the diminishing capacity of forests as a carbon sink has undermined its effort to meet the sink target set by the EU.
