That means it is not clear the forest program will ever get rolling in a substantial way. (nytimes.com)
New fields cultivated on top of the debris of a recently cleared forest... did not last more than two or three years. (religion-online.org)
The IPCC report estimated that we've already used 515 billion tonnes of the carbon budget as of 2011 by burning fossil fuels for energy as well as by clearing forests for farming and myriad other uses. (climatecentral.org)