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Title: Ahmedabad: Greenery to curb greenhouse gases
Source:The Times of India
Date:9 August 2018

Trees have long served as the critical carbon sink, consuming carbon dioxide pollution produced by humans. They even clean up air by reducing particulate matter pollution (PM10, PM2.5). But our unending hunger for vehicles, depreciating green spaces owing to developmental activities, accentuates the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Two years ago, the state forest department and GEER (Gujarat Ecological Education and Research Foundation) initiated a study, ‘Carbon Stock Assessment of Selected Tree Species’. The study found that in Ahmedabad district alone, the amount of carbon that was sequestered (storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to defer global warming) in urban areas was 9.68 lakh tonnes. The number of trees of various girth sizes was around 3.36 crore in the Ahmedabad district.




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