It Takes a Small Forest to Offset CO2 from a Holiday, Study Says

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October 30th, 5:19am

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Tammy Parsons, nursery manager of the John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center, lays out a plot at an experiment site on Deer Lake Mesa in Cimarron, New Mexico, US, August 17, 2021. Picture taken August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adria Malcolm

Think first before you plan a break. A two-week luxury holiday could require almost 400 trees to be planted to offset your carbon footprint. A couple of lattes a day would need 13 trees a year. That’s according to a report by Credit Suisse Group AG, detailing lifestyle choices and the impact on greenhouse-gas emissions. According to Bloomberg, the study examined the number of trees needed to mitigate everyday consumer behavior and erase a person’s carbon footprint over the course of a year. “It likely remains difficult for most consumers to grasp how bad an individual activity is from a climate impact point of view,” the analysts said. “We introduce the concept of Treeprint, or the number of mature trees that are needed to offset the emissions generated with a certain activity.” Swapping steak frites for a vegetarian pasta bolognese for dinner would result in a 94% drop in emissions, while a white tea’s footprint is about 90% lower than a latte, the analysts including Eugene Klerk wrote in the report. An eight-minute shower each day needs up to 10 trees a year to get to net zero, they estimated.

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