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A lot more research needs to be done to establish the true costs and benefits of protecting forest ecosystems and biodiversity.
Unilever has committed to the sustainable sourcing of agricultural and forest products.
Moreover, investing in forest conservation and sustainable land use is one of the most cost-effective means of mitigating climate change.
Restoring just 15% of degraded forest landscapes worldwide could generate up to $85 billion worth of ecosystem services every year, mostly benefiting rural and underprivileged communities.
Estimates of the value of the Mau forest complex to the Kenyan economy, for example, are $1.5 billion a year.
The funding is preparing them, for example, to develop monitoring systems and build support and awareness among local communities and indigenous peoples for a fresh start to forest management.
Enlightened businesses, which will be key to meeting the 2020 funding goals, are also investing in sustainable forest management.
The Congo basin represents the second largest mass of tropical forest in the world, with 220 million hectares.
And yet Africa’s forest coverage fell by 10% between 1990 and 2005 – more than half the recorded global shrinkage.
Forest reserves are more plentiful in Indonesia and Brazil.
But the present-day pencil story would be incomplete without citing China’s state-owned firms, which made the initial investments in technology and labor training; lax forest management policies, which kept wood artificially cheap; generous export subsidies; and government intervention in currency markets, which gives Chinese producers a significant cost advantage.
Wealth would grow, Marx argued, but would benefit the few, not the many: the forest of upraised arms looking for work would grow thicker and thicker, while the arms themselves would grow thinner and thinner.
In recent years, millions of people have suffered the hardships of extreme heatwaves, droughts, flood surges, powerful hurricanes, and devastating forest fires, because the Earth’s temperature is already 1.1º Celsius (roughly 2º Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average.
Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.
It both protects and restores the forest cover of peatlands that have become a major source of carbon emissions; it provides an effective mechanism for fighting corruption; and it improves the effectiveness of official development assistance.
Both teams would be parachuted into a remote African forest, without any equipment: no matches, knives, shoes, fish hooks, clothes, antibiotics, pots, ropes, or weapons.
But, in 1976, the FAO admitted in a new plan that forest and watershed management activities had “turned out to be quite limited.”
The 1976 plan called for sustainable logging and basic forest-fire control, but war intervened, costing Afghanistan half its forest cover.
Up to 60% of the old growth forest in Nangahar, the second largest opium-producing province, may have been cut during the war years.
At the current rate, Afghanistan’s old growth forest could vanish within a decade.
A new initiative called the Green Corps includes 300 forest rangers charged with stopping illegal logging, and the ministry hopes to boost their numbers within a year.
Today, in relative terms, we collectively have only a small swath of forest left – and we are rapidly destroying it.
Four million hectares of forest disappear every year in Africa – double the world average.
This year, we’ve gotten a taste of the many kinds of dangers that lie ahead: more extreme hurricanes, massive droughts, forest fires, spreading infectious diseases, and floods.
Maria destroyed the forest, too.
For those of us who believe that a forest credit market could provide critical means of protecting our planet our Musk moment is here.
These accounts are also being used to improve forest management in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where forests are a vital resource for two major growth sectors, tourism and hydropower generation.
Consider climate change: few people realize that tropical forest destruction accounts for 20% of overall carbon emissions – more than the world’s cars, trucks, and airplanes combined.
Would the widening gap be as inconsequential as the proverbial tree that falls in the forest, with no one there to hear it?
Residue from forest, agricultural, and agro-industrial activities could be collected and converted.
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