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How Saving Our Forests Can Solve Multiple Global Crises

Jad Daley is CEO of American Forests, a non-profit that protects and restores forests. Trees are like a ‘magic device’, says Daley, pulling CO2 from the air and transforming it into wood. Today, trees and forests capture 17% of US carbon emissions and research shows we could double that.

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