Vast expanses of what now are desertified or degraded landscapes used to be forested. Increasing forest cover lowers ground temperatures and increases local humidity, which can start a "virtuous cycle" of reforestation and re-humidification, the rebuilding of forest soils and "duffs" which themselves can be profound carbon sinks.

Further, continuous selective harvest for wood and fiber products can be a way to sequester the carbon embodied in the wood products in new construction and smart remodeling. We now emit considerable carbon in the process of creating cement for the production of concrete used in construction. Countries in northern Europe are well into a round of experimentation with all wood larger scale construction.

There is also potential for sequestration in sea products and healthy sea environments which can be huge carbon sinks, as can the vast expanses of agricultural lands if the soils are brought back to life through switching from oil based chemical farming to lifecycle biotic fertilization and pest control.

The point is that while no single silver bullet exists, broad reaching changes in our farming, forestry, restoration of wetlands and riparian zones, restoration of ocean shore boundaries and mangrove zones, the basic re-wilding of the huge swaths of biologically degraded environment that our current industrial model have degraded, can work on both ends of the carbon problem, emission and sequestration.