As the world searches for climate solutions, the Bee God Tree of Jingmai Mountain offers the most poetic response. This ancient tree, planted a thousand years ago, has now grown into a towering bridge connecting tradition and modernity, the local and the global.

From the perspective of global climate change, this ancient tree in the mountainous region of southwest China reminds us that addressing the issue can perhaps begin with guarding one tree, a swarm of bees, and a stretch of tea forest.