As a practitioner of silviculture (how forests grow) in my eclectic ecologic background, this would appear to be an offshoot of phyto-remediation (plant-based) to go along with bio-remediation (biologic) in creating some very much needed recognition that these functions have been there all along. . .

Forests are also known as ‘water factories’ in the active filtration of of water coming through the hydrologic-cycle as rain, snow, or even as evapotranspiration (rain & snow come down; in evapotranspiration, it goes up as a mist, creating clouds).

What is known as the cellulosic bond is almost as strong as the hydrogen bond (why when water is broken down as hydrogen and oxygen, the end by-product is always water) – this is why wood has been used as a structural element in building for as long as can be remembered. . .

The key here is in knowing – not to create an entire new industry from finding this out (i.e., the source of new grant funding) – as academics need to develop a reverence for what Nature already accomplishes, in supporting reforestation to absorb CO2 – as new proof.