The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its sixth assessment report released in August, reiterated its analysis of the role played by human-induced activities in contributing to catastrophic heatwaves, droughts and cyclones. It noted that in 2019, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was at its highest in at least two million years. However, under the garb of the 2021-2030 United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, mass tree-planting campaigns are often seen as a silver bullet to the global climate crisis both by government and civil society entities.