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China accounts for more than 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017, according to NASA data

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-pl...

China's also been a major supporter of the Great Green Wall of Africa providing technology and funding.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3302068/why-...

So not really a carbon sink but a carbon perimeter.

I wonder how the albedo has changed, and evaporation of water there.

Alipay has a function called ant forest, you use the app more often, you get more credit. And when it reach certain amount, aliaba will plant a small tree in the desert. People used to be crazy about this shit, but not for now. I guess the main reason is that these effort are good activities, but it didn’t help that much, compared to the effort from the government. At least on the this topic, they did a pretty good job, it last for decades, and it will countinue.

Alipay has another function called zhima credit score, which is related to the ant forest, you can rent bikes and power banks with no deposit when you have a high score. and it’s the base block of so called ‘social credit score’ for Chinese people

How much deforestation over the past decades has been reversed and is deforestation currently under control?