Climate change endangers the forests
About one third of Germany’s surface area is covered with forests. This makes Germany one of the most densely forested countries in Europe.
What many people don’t know is that forests play an important role in regulating the climate and the water balance, because through photosynthesis they store CO2 in their roots and release oxygen through their leaves.
But our forests are increasingly affected by climate change: Prolonged heat and drought weaken shallow-rooted trees such as spruce, as they cannot penetrate deeper, waterlogged layers of soil with their short roots. There is also the problem of the predominantly monoculture forests. In weakened forests, pests have an easy time spreading, and long periods of heat significantly increase the risk of forest fires.
The climate protection project
The ClimatePartner project “Planting Trees in Germany” supported the reforestation and transformation of German forests. Its aim was to make forests more resilient to the effects of climate change.
The tree-planting activities in Germany were linked to support for an internationally recognized forest conservation project in Brazil or Colombia. Additionally, trees were planted in German forests as part of the project.
The project thus combined international forest conservation with regional measures to help our forests adapt to climate change.
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