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“The Forgotten Solution” coalition writes from climate summit to United Nations: Don’t forget forests, food and land

Stiltwalkers dressed as giant trees will deliver a letter this afternoon (Friday) to the driver of an electric car, to be driven coast-to-coast from the summit in San Francisco to the United Nations in New York and handed over to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.

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Serving up climate change solutions, one plate at a time

One third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Food waste contributes more than 4 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year. In light of this, we've highlighted some of the initiatives, pledges and solutions being implemented.

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Indigenous peoples – keepers of some of our planet’s most important knowledge

They are keepers of some of our planet’s most important knowledge. With a deep connection to nature and reliance on natural resources, they are critical partners in stewarding our world’s lands and waters. Yet the voices of indigenous peoples are often excluded when planning conservation, environmentalism and sustainability.

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Soil as an important carbon stock

Soil is an important carbon stock – it stores three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. If the carbon in soil rose by just 0.4% per year, it would be enough to halt the increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere related to human activities.

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Watch The Forgotten Solution trailer here today

OVER ONE BILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING || From the creator of “The Big Bang” and “Garden of Eden” || Coming this fall, winter, spring and summer. Nature is The Forgotten Solution. Watch the full trailer here today.

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Global summit players recognize forests as leading natural climate solutions

Putting forests at the heart of the climate change conversation was the focus of two new initiatives unveiled at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco this week - The Rainforest Journalism Fund and Cities4Forests. Read more about the initiatives and who is behind them.

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Voices from the land sector explain their hopes for GCAS and beyond

The Global Climate Action Summit officially kicks off on Thursday. Voices from the land sector describe what they’d like to see happen this week and beyond.

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Restoration targets in climate goals and ways to remove carbon from the sky

As countries consider ways to increase the ambition of their current national climate plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, they appear to be leaving one of their best players on the bench: forests. WRI interrogates what might work from new technologies to land management practices.

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Nature-based solutions are the real climate-resilient route to water security

We experience the effects of climate change through water, whether that is through droughts and scarcity, increased extreme weather, flooding, or their impacts on water and sanitation infrastructure. TNC's report 'Beyond the Source' shows that source water protection delivers significant water security improvements.

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