New global nature pact hangs in balance as ‘world burns’
About 195 countries are set to finalise a deal this year to halt human damage to plants, animals and ecosystems KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Despite being two years behind schedule due to the pandemic, talks between governments aimed at brokering a new global pact to protect nature made little concrete progress […]
COP26: Pivotal Progress Made on Sustainable Forest Management and Conservation
UN Climate Change News, 10 November 2021 – The sustainable management and conservation of the world’s forests has been significantly boosted at COP26 with financial pledges, technical progress and a declaration by World Leaders and other stakeholders on ‘Forests and Land Use’. Realising that action is needed now to preserve forests’ crucial role in contributing to resilience-building, emission […]
UN Scales up Climate Action to Protect Forests
UN Climate Change News, 21 March 2022 – Today’s International Day of Forests under the theme “Forests and sustainable production and consumption,” is an opportunity to highlight the significant role of forests in the context of climate change. Forests globally are under immense pressure. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report […]
Forests help reduce global warming in more ways than one There’s more to the effect than the capture of carbon dioxide alone
When it comes to cooling the planet, forests have more than one trick up their trees. Tropical forests help cool the average global temperature by more than 1 degree Celsius, a new study finds. The effect stems largely from forests’ capacity to capture and store atmospheric carbon (SN: 11/18/21). But around one-third of that tropical […]