The health of rural people in Indonesia may be at risk from local temperature increases as a direct result of widespread forest clearing, a study by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Queensland has shown.
Posted by: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
UNDP’s Administrator, Achim Steiner, highlights that the restoration of land and forests promises to solve multiple challenges. He says “nature-based strategies, including restoration, provide more than a third of our climate emissions solution, including both mitigation and climate adaptation…”
Posted by: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
We often think of ‘land-based’ climate solutions or nature as being something that’s far removed from the urban lives. Cities are powerhouses of global GDP, and are also responsible for at least 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. But could they also be the unseen heroes of natural climate solutions.
Posted by: TFA2020
With the deadline fast approaching towards 2020 – the date by which hundreds of companies have committed to reduce tropical deforestation associated with the sourcing of commodities such as palm oil, soy, beef, and paper and pulp – many admit that knowing what must be done and then actually doing it, is a gap.
Posted by: ISSD
The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development kicked off on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York. This year’s theme focusses on the “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies” and the SDGs in review are of relevance to migration. WWF authors explore why nature is central to it all.
Posted by: André Vasconcelos and Ciniro Costa Junior for Medium
If the Brazilian cattle sector was a country, it would rank 16th in a league table of countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions (ghg).
Posted by: Yale Environment 360
Despite international efforts to reduce deforestation, the world’s tropical forests lost 39 million acres of trees in 2017, an area roughly the size of Bangladesh, according to new data from the environmental monitoring group Global Forest Watch.
Posted by: UN Environment
There is a “catastrophic climate gap” between the commitments that countries have made under the Paris Climate Agreement and the emissions reductions required to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, according to UN Environment’s Emissions Gap Report 2017.
Posted by: NATURE4CLIMATE
On the first day of the Ministerial Climate Change (MOCA) Summit, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and five not-for-profits launched an initiative calling for concerted action to address a neglected area of climate change–the land sector.
Posted by: GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT
As part of the Global Climate Action Summit, WWF, together with a coalition of partners, issued the 30X30 Food, Forests and Land Challenge, calling on businesses, states, city and local governments, and global citizens to unite and take action to deliver up to 30% of the climate solutions needed by 2030.