While society must make every effort to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, tree-planting can also play a role by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The potential of woodlands to do this is widely recognised. Woodlands in the UK currently remove about 12Mt CO_2 per year (about 2% of the UK's GHG emissions) and store around 150Mt C (equivalent to 550Mt CO_2), as well as, a large quantity in the soils. In the UK, an authoritative assessment of the scientific evidence, by Sir David Read, in his 2009 report, Combating climate change - a role for UK forests, concluded that creating new woodlands in the UK can make a significant and cost-effective contribution to our efforts to remove the most important GHG by volume, carbon dioxide, from the atmosphere.
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机译：尽管社会必须尽一切努力减少其温室气体（GHG）排放，但是植树造林也可以通过从大气中清除二氧化碳来发挥作用。林地做到这一点的潜力已广为人知。英国的林地目前每年清除约12Mt的CO_2（约占英国温室气体排放量的2％），并储存约150Mt的C（相当于550Mt的CO_2），以及大量的土壤。在英国，戴维·雷德爵士（Sir David Read）在其2009年的报告《抗击气候变化-英国森林的作用》中对科学证据进行了权威性评估，得出的结论是，在英国建立新的林地可以为保护森林做出重要的，具有成本效益的贡献。我们努力从大气中清除最重要的温室气体，即二氧化碳。
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