World off track to end deforestation by 2030, report finds
Oct 27, 2023 · 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 …
To tackle deforestation we must focus on land use. Here's why
Sep 13, 2022 · 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.
Investment in reforestation is critical for Mexico's forests
Sep 30, 2022 · 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 …
Oct 11, 2022 · 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
Oct 6, 2015 · 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 ...
The Tropical Forest Alliance is reducing deforestation
Nov 11, 2019 · 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.
This is how Germany is fighting to save its beleaguered forests
Oct 11, 2019 · 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
Here's how halting deforestation can help us reach net zero
May 21, 2022 · 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.
China's unique opportunity to tackle deforestation
Jul 21, 2022 · In 2017, COFCO International (China’s largest food trader), committed to stop deforestation in its soybean and palm oil supply chains. At COP26 COFCO signed the Agricultural Commodity Companies Corporate Statement of Purpose , in which 12 global companies pledged to “halting forest loss associated with agricultural commodity production and ...
China’s Role in Promoting Global Forest Governance and …
Jul 19, 2022 · 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.