Planting woodlands to combat climate change

It's getting hotter : "The latest data show that this year continues to bring record-breaking temperatures. Every month in 2019 has ranked among the four warmest for the month in question, and June was the warmest June ever recorded. It is now confirmed that July was also an exceptional month."
- EU Copernicus Climate Change Service, Aug 2019.

Forests can help : "All assessed modelled pathways that limit warming to 1.5ºC or well below 2°C require land-based mitigation and land-use change, with most including different combinations of reforestation, afforestation, reduced deforestation, and bioenergy. "
-UN IPCC report on Climate Change & Land, Aug 2019.

Lots of woodland can help lots : "The planet could support nearly 1 billion hectares of additional trees, covering roughly the area of the US, without pushing into existing cities or agricultural land, according to a new study in Science led by researchers at ETH-Zürich in Switzerland. Once those trees reach maturity, that amount of forest land could be enough to store 205 billion metric tons of carbon, about two-thirds of the amount that humans have emitted since the Industrial Revolution, the paper concludes."
- MIT Technology Review, Aug 2019.

Woodlands in Ireland are a great help : Although the percentage of the land surface of Ireland covered by trees has risen in recent years to c11%, this is still one of the lowest in the EU, despite the climate & soil being eminently suitable to the growth of trees. Planting native species also supports biodiversity & reverses the effects of habitat loss.

So let's plant lots more trees!