Recent research from Rights and Resources Initiative and partners show that lands managed by indigenous peoples and local communities hold five times more carbon than this 2016 estimate, equivalent to 33 times the global energy emissions of 2017.
Posted by: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
A new science study shows that countries including the top 10 emitters can meet the Paris Agreement energy targets and maintain natural climate solutions by prioritizing development of renewables on already converted lands and avoiding conversion of natural lands. The analysis also reveals that the world has 19 times the required energy targets on converted lands.
Posted by: NATURE4CLIMATE
The Polish presidency of COP24 has published the Ministerial Katowice Forests for Climate Declaration. Nature4Climate encourages all Parties to take action to conserve and enhance sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, especially primary forests and intact ecosystems.
Posted by: UNDP
UNDP’s Administrator Achim Steiner says on the 10th Anniversary of UN-REDD and the second week of the UN Climate meeting in Poland, nature has provided us with a powerful and free force to fight climate change – our forest. It’s time to allow them to realize their full potential.