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Let us ‘bring back the forest’

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The monthly average concentration of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory was reported to be 413.92 ppm for June 2019 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2019). If you check the same just a year back (i.e. June 2018), it was 410.79 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2019). Concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing at a steady rate (approximately 3 ppm per year) with the addition of ~ 40 gigaton of carbon dioxide every year. We are hurrying towards a ‘threshold’ concentration of carbon dioxide, a point of no return. Beyond this threshold, there may be severe disruption of the entire ecosystem and biodiversity through permanent climate change (Steffen et al. 2018), and the doomsday cannot be far away. …

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Title
Let us ‘bring back the forest’
Author
Santanu Bandyopadhyay
Publication date
22-07-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Electronic ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-019-01730-z
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