Last month I discussed the announcement by Jeff Bezos, founder, president and CEO of Amazon — that he would commit $10 billion toward fighting climate change . The money would be used to establish the Bezos Earth Fund, which would “fund scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.” As I discussed previously , there are two big targets in this fight: Reducing ongoing CO2 emissions, and removing CO2 that is already in the atmosphere. I mentioned the potential for trees as an efficient way of removing atmospheric CO2. Vegetation takes atmospheric CO2 and converts it through photosynthesis into biomass. But it’s a slow process, and it doesn’t permanently sequester the CO2. Eventually, most of the biomass once again becomes CO2. I was subsequently contacted by multiple people who wanted to share more information about the potential to […]