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Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions (www.carbonbrief.org)

submitted 5 days ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/treehuggers@slrpnk.net

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/27726079

Growing tall trees to provide shade for cocoa plantations in west Africa could sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, according to a new study.

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[–] f314@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel like “emissions from cocoa (plantations)” would have greatly reduced confusion here 😅

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, I thought maybe cocoa was bad for the soil or something