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Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know.

Grist

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Elizondo abandoned his plan for a career in the public sector and booked a one-way ticket to San Francisco, with no job and nowhere to live. .