Afforestation on degraded land concerns planting trees for timber production or other use, where the amount of carbon stored is related to species, location, soil and structure. For the agriculture and land use sector in Gelderland, it involves a sequestration potential of 0.033 to 0.066 Mton CO₂-eq in 2030. The potential is deliberately estimated conservatively, because solutions with higher sequestration rates, such as multistrata agroforestry, silvopasture and regenerative agriculture, take precedence.
Regional ambition gives the measure scale: the province wants to plant 1,700 hectares of forest and 1 million trees, partly in urban areas. The promising area covers 26,564 hectares of non-cultivated land with an agricultural designation, supplemented by part of the 115,427 hectares of existing nature land where trees can be added. The size of that area determines the extent to which the upper bound of 0.066 Mton comes into view. Source: Climate Action Recap Gelderland (agriculture and land use sector analysis), New Economy.