To tackle deforestation we must focus on land use. Here's why
2022年9月13日 · Stopping deforestation is crucial to cutting carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2007-2016 came from agriculture and land-use change, approximately half of which is due to deforestation.
World off track to end deforestation by 2030, report finds
2023年10月27日 · Yet deforestation increased by 4% worldwide in 2022 compared with 2021, as some 66,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) were destroyed, the annual Forest Declaration Assessment report said. That means the world is …
Investment in reforestation is critical for Mexico's forests
2022年9月30日 · Mexico suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation on the planet, a third of its land area is severely degraded. Led by the World Economic Forum and the Mexican Alliance for Ecosystem Restoration (AMERE), a coalition between Reforestamos Mexico, WRI Mexico and WWF Mexico, the 1t.org Mexico Chapter has launched to scale the ...
Deforestation 101: Everything you need to know - The World …
2022年10月11日 · Deforestation is also caused by the use of slash and burn techniques and other methods to make way for the expansion of infrastructure. Infrastructure expansion occurs for many reasons, such as when urban sprawl leads to forests being encroached upon by cities; when people flee urban areas in order to build in more rural, forested settings; to ...
How can we stop deforestation? | World Economic Forum
2015年10月6日 · To meet goals to end deforestation, the GCP argues that companies must apply their pledges across all commodities, and along their entire supply chains. Today, only 7 percent of 250 major businesses it tracks have signed up to zero or zero-net deforestation pledges covering their supply chains, while 59 percent have no specific policy for ...
This is how Germany is fighting to save its beleaguered forests
2019年10月11日 · Last year, Germany lost 3,000 football pitches worth of forest to fires alone. But, with their vital role in mitigating climate change in mind, German forestry is in full action
The Tropical Forest Alliance is reducing deforestation
2019年11月11日 · Specific programs will focus on reducing deforestation and forest degradation, promoting smart climate agriculture and sustainable land use policies. In 2016, the TFA launched the Marrakesh Declaration for the Sustainable Development of the Oil Palm Sector in Africa at the Marrakesh Climate Change Conference.
China’s Role in Promoting Global Forest Governance and …
2022年7月19日 · The report, China’s Role in Promoting Global Forest Governance and Combating Deforestation, provides insights into the many ways China can step up on global leadership in combating commodity-driven deforestation, also challenges some of the traditionally held myths among experts and professional networks in China.
Reducing deforestation means taking environmental crime …
2020年8月31日 · Despite international outrage and condemnation, deforestation rates jumped 55% across the region in the first four months of 2020 compared to the same period last year. Virtually every scientist studying the Amazon believes there is no good reason to cut a single tree down - what is required is to enact zero-deforestation policies, make ...
Here's how halting deforestation can help us reach net zero
2022年5月21日 · However, deforestation and forest degradation release more than 8 gigatons of CO2 equivalent in the atmosphere each year – more than half of what it absorbs. Recently, the Amazon rainforest was even found to release more carbon than it sequesters, as a direct result of deforestation and climate change.