Environmentalists call on Biden to fight climate change by protecting old-growth trees
Author: Ben Adler
A coalition of more than 70 environmental groups launched a joint campaign on February 15, 2022 calling on President Biden to protect old-growth trees on federal lands from logging as a means of fighting climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas that causes global warming, and older trees store more carbon than new ones because they are larger. Reducing emissions alone is an insufficient strategy for addressing the climate crisis we face today - the US must also sequester and store significant amounts of legacy emissions from the atmosphere,” the Sierra Club, one of the member organizations in the Climate Forests campaign, wrote in a memo that it distributed on Wednesday morning.