Blanketing an entire continent with forests: Why planting trees cannot make up for fossil fuel emissions
- Posted on June 20, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Blanketing an entire continent with forests: Why planting trees cannot make up for fossil fuel emissions

A new study assesses the cost of carbon offsetting, a practice increasingly used by oil and gas companies, and calculates the amount of land that would need to be covered with forests if all coal, oil, and gas reserves worldwide were burned.