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Bookmark or Share- Saving the Amazon rainforest – in 10 steps | World Economic ForumSatellites and other data tools are critical in the real-time monitoring of deforestation, forest fires and other threats to the Amazon. Data collected on location is also crucial in backing this up. The scientific community must collaborate to implement an early warning system that alerts the world to risks in “near real time”.
- Why forest restoration is key to India's climate goalsIndia has a long tradition of community participation in the conservation and restoration of trees and forests, from the Bishnoi people in the country’s arid state of Rajasthan who gave their lives to save their forest more than two centuries ago, to the women of the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand who mobilised the Chipko movement in the 1970s.
- Who suffers most from deforestation? | World Economic ForumThe debate over deforestation has traditionally weighed the tradeoffs between local economic benefits and the broader ecological footprint measured in carbon emissions (Alix-Garcia et al., 2013; Foster & Rosenzweig, 2003). Consequently, this framing has led to the creation of several multi-billion dollar programs under the umbrella of the ...
- China's unique opportunity to tackle deforestationIn 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 ...
- World off track to end deforestation by 2030, report findsYet 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 21% off track to end deforestation by 2030.
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