<i>“This is partly because forests, especially plantations of eucalypts and pines, are vulnerable to high-severity fires and will become more so as the world warms. Most of the carbon stored in grasslands is below ground, where it persists through fire.</i><p>This statement makes no sense, it would be absolute stupidity to plant pine and eucalypts in Africa. You would plant indigenous and you would plant with a plan. So that it does not affect run-off and waterways. You can have grassland with trees. This is not difficult.