Carbon Dioxide and Afforestation

Definition of afforestation:
Afforestation is the process of establishing a forest on land where there is no forest, by planting trees or sowing their seeds and caring continually until the trees grow collectively as a whole into a forest as planned. Need and importance of afforestation:
Afforestation helps in addressing the environmental issues of the world, esp. in preventing further global warming and reversing the effects of global warming. It also helps in avoiding desertification.
As the human needs grew by the population growth and advances in civilization people have been exploiting nature and converting forests into agricultural lands, mines, and industrial areas for various resources for their recreation, enjoyment and comfort in living.
As the global environmental issues due to industrialization are growing more seriously, there is an urgent need for the mankind to resolve them by protecting the environment by way of afforestation.
The afforestation in and around an industrial region serves in aesthetically enhancing the foreground and background landscape features while contributing to the overall improvement of the environment.
Forests have many important and varied functions, and to have a broad idea some of them are listed below:
Forests are the renewable resources of nature.
They are giant sinks of carbon: they absorb and assimilate carbon dioxide, which accounts for the majority of the greenhouse gases that are now accelerating global warming.
They are home to living creatures,
They contribute in maintaining biodiversity
They regulate the climate
They provide industrial timber and fuel,
They prevent and mitigate sudden freshets that lead to