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Bookmark or Share- Why forest restoration is key to India's climate goalsImage: 1t.org. India has committed to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5-3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover. This means increasing its forest cover from the current 25% to 33% and restoring 26 million hectares of land by 2030. The World Economic Forum’s trillion trees initiative is launching the ...
- To tackle deforestation we must focus on land use. Here's whyStrengthening forest and land-use governance in producer countries has to be the ultimate goal of any policy response. 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 ...
- World off track to end deforestation by 2030, report findsSteven Grattan. Deforestation increased by 4% in 2022, meaning the world is 21% off track to end deforestation by 2030. Efforts to preserve old-growth tropical forests are 33% off track, with 4.1 million hectares lost in 2022. WWF calls for tackling the systemic threats to forests, deliver the funding needed to protect and restore them, and ...
- Five ways to tackle global deforestation | World Economic Forum5 reasons to be optimistic about reducing - and reversing - deforestation. This year five themes stood out, all of which can help build a path to action to tackle deforestation in the next decade: 1. Power of youth. Greta Thunberg travelled to the US for Climate Week Image: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque. Youth involvement was the biggest story of the ...
- How 3 tech start-ups plan to tackle forest restorationArtificial intelligence, satellites, drones and data are being deployed in global reforestation efforts. Conserving, restoring and growing 1 trillion trees by 2030 could help restore biodiversity and fight climate change. This is the vision of the 1t.org, the World Economic Forum’s global reforestation initiative, launched at Davos 2020.
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