Nature – Cox et al. (2025): Carbon removal beyond the trees
Emily Cox, Sean Low, Chad M. Baum, Livia Fritz, Laurie Waller, Elspeth Spence, Nick Pidgeon, Rob Bellamy IN: Nature Communications Earth & Environment, DOI: .1038/s43247-025-02226-z
The authors suggest that the idea of planting trees for carbon removal is so powerful in the public imagination that it could act to bias members of the public away from any other techniques for carbon removal. Multiple projects on public perceptions that we have conducted around the globe have repeatedly suggested such an effect. They argue that the question of how the omnipresence of tree planting in people’s minds influences discussions of carbon removal is in need of empirical, experimental, and qualitative research.