Trees help tackle climate change

SOER 2010 Key fact (Deprecated) Published 06 Jan 2012

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems Climate change mitigation Environment and health

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Over one year a mature tree will take up about 22 kilograms of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and in exchange release oxygen. Each year, 1.3 million trees are estimated to remove more than 2500 tonnes of pollutants from the air.

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