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Forests, covering 31 percent of the Earth s total land area, are home to about 80 percent of the world s terrestrial biodiversity, feed over 25 percent of the world s population, and act as the most productive land-based ecosystems. In 2020, the total carbon stock in forests was 662 gigatonnes, making forests the second largest storehouse of carbon to mitigate climate change after the oceans.
Global forestry has faced increasing challenges in the past few decades, such as deforestation and forest degradation, as a result of population growth, poorly planned and constructed infrastructure, other unsustainable activities and natural disasters. According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020, which was released by the Food and Agriculture Organization last year, the world has lost around 420 million hectares of forest land to other land uses since 1990.
Why India Must Speak Up Against the New Pandemic Treaty Proposal at the WHO
A framework convention is not the correct type of legal instrument with which to resolve the WHO s structural and financial issues.
WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on May 18, 2018. Photo: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
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A decision regarding the launch of negotiations of a âNew Pandemic Treatyâ is expected to take place at the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA74), happening this week. The European Union (EU) and several other member-states are pushing for the assembly to make a quick decision on the proposal, which will create a âGlobal Framework Convention on Pandemic Preparedness and Responseâ (see the EU policy statement here). The negotiations are bound to be hectic.
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President Biden thrust his administration into a race to confront the economic risks of global warming by signing an executive order yesterday that brought the once niche issue of climate finance into the highest levels of government.
The long-awaited directive requires federal agencies to assess the economic dangers that rising temperatures could have on the government and homeowners, retirees, businesses and the U.S. financial system. It marks a major turning point for U.S. financial policy, which until last year was mostly silent on an issue that had for years been a priority among European nations.