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Strengthening 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 ...
Emily Poyser. 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. This article is based on Reuters reporting. This year’s Forest Declaration Assessment report finds that nearly 66,000 ...
Primary forest loss was 2.8% higher in 2019 than the year before and has remained stubbornly high for the last two decades despite efforts to halt deforestation. At least 1.8 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions are associated with 2019 primary forest loss, equivalent to the annual emissions of 400 million cars.
Image: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh. A new study, by the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University has suggested that deforestation could lead to a rise in the occurrence of diseases like COVID-19. Its findings suggest that when forests are cleared for agricultural use, the chances for transmission of zoonotic, or ...
Mexico's deforestation rate is one of the world's highest. But Mexico suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation on the planet. With 180,000 hectares of forest lost per year and a third of its 194 million hectares of land already severely degraded. The loss of Mexico's forests is largely due to human activity, such as rural ...
Deforestation slows down the exchanges of gases of tropical forests, leading to less rainfall in the surrounding regions, scientists say. In a recent study, rainfall patterns have been shown to decrease after tropical forests are cleared. But conservation of tropical forests can reduce heat stress, boost crop yields and maintain stable water ...
However, two nations, Indonesia and Malaysia, bucked the trend, with deforestation rates falling to near record-lows. In Indonesia, primary forest loss fell by 64% between the periods 2015-2017 and 2020-2022; Malaysia also saw rates falling by 57% over the same time frame. Less than two years after world leaders committed to end deforestation ...
German forestry in action. The country is fighting back. In August, the army was deployed to speed up the process of felling affected trees, so the wood could still be used for timber. But that caused a drop in prices, threatening the industry. Silviculture – the practice of sustainable forestry – is a vital part of the German economy ...
As President of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP-15), China can accelerate international cooperation to combat deforestation. In 2021, China committed itself to reverse global deforestation and as a major importer of timber, can play a key role in reaching this objective. China plays an important role in international forest ...
In the wet season, rainfall fell by as much as 0.6 millimeters a month for every percentage point of clearing. The study authors also looked at how far the impacts of deforestation would reach, on a scale of 25 to 40,000 square kilometers (approximately 10 to 15,444 square miles), New Scientist explained. They found that the effects increased ...