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Afforestation

Forest management that establishes forest through planting or seeding on land that has not historically been forested.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII Annex II

Synonyms

tree establishment

Broader

Forest management

Narrower

none

Relations

sequesters Carbon sink
applies-to Forest
produces Carbon sequestered

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_244 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_244
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_244)