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Response to Comment on "The global tree restoration potential".

Jean-Francois Bastin¹, Yelena Finegold², Claude Garcia³

¹Crowther Lab, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. bastin.jf@gmail.com.

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Global tree restoration offers significant carbon storage potential. Our research quantifies this potential without a time limit, addressing recent critiques.

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Area of Science:

Environmental science
Ecology
Climate change research

Background:

Quantifying global tree restoration potential is crucial for climate change mitigation.
Estimating carbon storage capacity informs conservation and restoration strategies.
Recent critiques have questioned findings on restoration potential and timelines.

Purpose of the Study:

To quantify the global potential for tree restoration.
To assess the associated carbon storage capacity under current climate conditions.
To address and clarify misunderstandings in recent critiques regarding time limitations.

Main Methods:

Global-scale assessment of land available for tree restoration.
Modeling of carbon sequestration potential based on established ecological principles.
Comparative analysis of findings against external critiques.

Main Results:

Significant global tree restoration potential identified.
Substantial associated carbon storage capacity quantified.
Critiques based on time-limited projections were found to misinterpret the study's scope.

Conclusions:

Global tree restoration is a viable strategy for carbon sequestration.
The study's findings on potential and carbon storage remain robust.
Clarification provided on the non-time-limited nature of the assessment.