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Lluís Brotons

CSIC researcher at CREAF and co-coordinator of the Laboratory for Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology

I was surprised that in the context of climate change and afforestation, fire risk is not discussed. The study concludes that the contribution of afforestation policies in drylands is not very important, but if we include the potential risks from the increased flammability of these new forests under climate change conditions, their potential contribution to future carbon sequestration would be overestimated.  

This would further reinforce the limitations of large-scale afforestation in arid areas, such as those prevailing in a large part of the Iberian Peninsula, if the objectives are purely for climate mitigation.

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