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Likewise, in Southeast Asia, hill tribes rarely have legal rights to their indigenous holdings, which are often located in state forests.
For example, in Indonesia’s Kalimantan and Sumatra provinces, we are helping to promote the standardization of land rights, with particular attention to women and indigenous communities, while defining state forests’ boundaries using participatory methods for mapping and registration.
The most visible is the structural approach, which invests money wisely in flood protection, drainage, preservation of wetlands and forests, and remedial action – based on sound risk assessment – to protect valuable infrastructure.
The need to supply fuel and open land during rapid economic development had a devastating effect on European and American forests.
This mechanism could help establish a system to pay for the maintenance of standing forests and support policies that comprehend the Amazon’s global value.
So, taking land for the production of bio-fuels from forests means speeding up global warming, because bio-fuel crops store much less carbon than trees.
The substitution of forests by maize, rape, and other oilseed cultivation reduces the stock of biomass and likewise leads to an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Deploying BECCS, however, would require the world to maintain an area 1.5 times the size of India, full of fields or forests capable of absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide, while still providing enough food for a global population that is expected to exceed nine billion by 2050.
But weaker oversight by the World Bank would leave loan recipients to monitor and enforce environmental and social standards themselves – regardless of their resources or political will to do so –thus jeopardizing efforts to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, resettle displaced people, mitigate environmental damage, or protect forests and biodiversity.
In practice, green accounting might easily have led our forefathers not to cut down forests, because this would entail losing a valuable resource.
But converting forests to agriculture led to cities and civilization.
The Price of Saving a TreeLatin America is blessed with more than its fair share of wildlife and lush forests.
Felling seven million hectares of trees each year, South America clears more forests than any other continent.
If we can unlock the hidden potential in Latin America’s forests – without destroying them – then we could provide a solution to the problem of habitat destruction.
Economists’ estimates range from $1.23 billion a year (to save trees in Latin America’s biodiversity “hot spots”) to $5.8 billion a year (to save 2% of the continent’s land area) to $500 billion (making a one-off payment to save all of Latin America’s forests).
The real hope lies in the idea of protecting forests for their value in the fight against climate change.
Forests contain huge amounts of carbon.
But growing concern about the peril of climate change could help save some of this continent’s lush forests.
But people told us that they often miss and the supplies land up thousands of feet or below in deep forests.
The Biodiversity BargainNAIROBI – What will it cost to save the world’s forests and boost the life prospects of its seven billion people?
The Aichi targets call for cutting by half the rate of loss of the planet’s natural habitats, including forests, by 2020.
One assessment estimates that about $40 billion a year will be needed to halve rates of deforestation and ensure sustainable management of forests in developing countries by the target date.
But the cost of preserving the world’s biodiversity needs to be contrasted with the enormous economic and social value of forests in terms of the benefits that they provide locally and globally.
Forests ensure water supplies, counter soil erosion, and safeguard an abundance of genetic resources that will become increasingly important in developing the new products, pharmaceuticals, and crop strains needed to support the lives and livelihoods of more than nine billion people by 2050.
The potential returns from targeted investments in forests are immense.
Whether to combat climate change or to realize wider environmental benefits, the need for enhanced financing of forests can no longer be ignored.
And there is a final imperative: 1.4 billion people currently depend for their livelihoods on forests.
Investing in forests and biodiversity represents a root-and-branch response to these challenges.
Maintaining tropical forests and other relatively natural ecosystems would preserve critical ecosystem services, especially soil fertility, pollination, pest control, and climate amelioration.
Improved environmental policies mean that most of today’s forests are still standing and no-fishing zones are widely established and enforced.
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