The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn't a Technology: It's Forests.
A forest planted on an abandoned open-pit coal mine, Germany. (Photo: Hans Blossey Getty Images) Minimize Amazon rainforest deforestation (Brazil) The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn't a Technology: It's Forests. Forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet. Recent scientific research confirms that forests and other “natural climate solutions” are absolutely essential in mitigating climate change, thanks to their carbon sequestering and storage capabilities. The latest IPCC report does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historical precedent” in order to avoid the climate catastrophe that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average global temperature. Climate change already disproportionately affects the world’s most vulnerable people including poor rural communities that depend on the land for their