We all know that the climate emergency It is already a reality and it has come to stay harshly. From then there are some countries that are taking the environment and, among them, is Ireland.
Ireland's climate action plan that we can see from Here he proposes some forceful measures and some with quite controversial but, inevitably, we need blunt actions if we want to see a dignified future.
Significant investments in renewable energy, transportation sustainable, more recycling or a massive effort in planting trees, among many others. They are the batteries of measures approved in Ireland with the intention of achieving the objective net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Here is an infographic published by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment with the main objectives…
Among the objectives of the approver, the project is highlighted of massive reforestation – period 2021 to 2030 – with the hope of one day having at least 440 million trees planted to help combat the worst effects of change climate.
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis or the advantages provided by tree cover, including control of stormwater and fostering habitats for life wild, among other benefits.
Over the centuries, Ireland went from having a roof initial forestry from 80% to only 1% in 1929. According to the Authority for the Development of Agriculture and Food, Ireland is the only country in Europe where that there has been a total destruction of their forests .
Today, in Ireland, the total forest area is estimated at 770,020 ha (11% of the total terrestrial surface of Ireland) the highest level in over 350 years as a result of successive public policy initiatives. Almost 391,358 ha, that is, a little more than half are publicly owned.
According to the objectives established in the document, proposed the planting of 8,000 hectares each year, without entering in details about the type and number of trees (The Program National Forestry between 2014-2020 afforestation rates have been an average of 5,500 hectares per year)
This weekend, the Irish authorities said the country will plant about 22 million new trees across the country every year until 2040 (Extending the initially established term of 2030). Estimating goal of forest cover of 70% in conifers and 30% of wide leaves.
Yeah! the figure is astronomical and although it may seem like a madness from the perspective of coherence and daily work to achieve the challenge, we'll see how they do it! We only have What to look at India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in 2016 planted more than 50 million trees in one day, according to Guinness World Records.
Or see how Australia reduces 80% of the use of plastic bags plastic in 3 months thanks to the initiative of two of the largest supermarket chains that banned plastic bags plastic for food.
The Irish Times newspaper noted that the initiative has already been has faced opposition from farmers, whom we will have to convince them to reserve part of their lands for that the trees fulfill the objectives of the government.
Forestry (A set of activities related to the cultivation, care and exploitation of forests) also provides important resources for the supply chain of bioenergy and the bioeconomy in general, as well as for the wood products, which can act as a substitute less carbon intensive for materials in construction and related sectors.
According to a study exhaustive report recently published in the journal Science… “Tree restoration continues to be One of the most effective strategies to mitigate the change. This is by far thousands of times the most cheap for climate change ” and the most effective, said study co-author Thomas Crowther, change ecologist climate change from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
It must be recognized that other countries are also contributing their grain of sand to the increase of forests .
Although some professionals are commenting that this is not the best way to repopulate areas deforested , which nature itself can regenerate and this would be the perfect solution if we let continue its course. Although we understand that nature always knows what which is better, given the rate at which we are destroying the planet… Can we allow nature the luxury of do things at your own pace?
