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Since 2017, drought and bark beetle infesta­tion have caused more than 900,000 hectares of forest across Germany — mostly non-native and monocul­tural conife­rous forests — to die off, as the satel­lite data published in September 2025 by the German Aerospace Center […]

CO2 footprint in Germany – how deciduous forests help On average, each person in Germany causes 10.4 tonnes of CO2 equiva­lents per year. These emissions are made up of various areas: consump­tion accounts for the largest share at 28 percent […]