Guest Post

Why forests are the best ‘technology’ to stop climate change

by Jennifer MorganExecutive Director of Greenpeace International Expanding forests is a much more effective solution to climate change than bioenergy. A view is seen from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) in Sao Sebastiao do Uatuma in the middle of the Amazon forest in Amazonas state, Brazil [Bruno Kelly/Reuters] The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a …