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Paradigm Shift Narrative About Climate Action The New Nation
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A keen awareness about the intersection of our ecosystem and the accelerating destabilisation of the climate is helping shift the narrative for climate action and can help us transition from being polluters to becoming protectors of the climate, said Marco Lambertini, Director General at the World Wide Fund for Nature. Science has never been clearer. We are currently witnessing a catastrophic decline in our planet s ecosystems and biodiversity, and an accelerating destabilisation of the climate. And today we also understand that the two are interconnected, Lambertini told IPS. This isn t in fact new.
There Can Be No Conversation on Climate Change without Including Forests and Deforestation – The Green Gigaton Challenge
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WWF applauds pledge to hold global meeting on treaty to stop marine plastic pollution
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The backed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners, catalyses public and private funds to combat deforestation, with the goal to cut annual emissions by 1 gigaton by 2025.
As environmental leaders and change makers meet virtually for the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in February 2021, the issue of deforestation has been central to their discussions.
“It is fundamental in the fight against the environmental emergency that faces us.”
Forests and woodlands are important stores of planet-warming carbon dioxide, soaking up 30 per cent of emissions from industry and fossil fuels. Their role in capturing and storing carbon is critical to mitigating the risks that climate change poses to the world’s food systems.