Carbon Dioxide Removal Narrative is Greenwashing Monoculture Tree PlantationsGuest article by Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Oli Munnion, Global Forest CoalitionDespite the evidence exposing the harms of monoculture plantations to communities, water resources, biodiversity and the climate, proponents of ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (CDR) continue to commercially and politically support the expansion of monoculture plantations of exotic tree species as a climate solution. Every year on September 21, the World Rainforest Movement leads a global day of action known as the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Therefore, understanding ‘afforestation/reforestation’ as being essentially monoculture tree plantations, nearly all of the CDR that has been theoretically delivered in the real world has been done so using industrial plantations. The gender-differentiated impacts of industrial tree plantations are also well documented in chile and across Latin America, with Indigenous women being affected most acutely. On the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Plantations, it is important to look past the superficial and erroneous classification of industrial tree plantations as being a climate ‘solution’.