LONDON: China’s policy of forestation is likely playing “a significant role” in curbing the impacts of climate change as carbon dioxide absorption in two of its new forest areas has been “underestimated”, local media reported.
A report by the journal Nature showed that the role of two carbon sink areas, located on China’s southwestern Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and northeastern Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, respectively, had previously been under-appreciated.
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