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Global progress on meeting targets to protect and restore forests by 2030 has moved too slowly, a study has found.

BANGKOK: The world is 'failing' on a pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, with global losses increasing last year, a group of NGOs and researchers warned Tuesday.

The world is moving too slowly to meet pledges to end deforestation by 2030, with the destruction worsening in 2022, according to a report by a coalition of environmental organizations released on Monday. More than 140 countries - representing the vast majority of the world's woodlands - pledged at the 2021 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by the end of the decade. Yet deforestation increased by 4% worldwide in 2022 compared with 2021, as some 66,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) were destroyed, the annual Forest Declarat...

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The first big news of the COP27 climate conference was a forest promise: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a 26-nation partnership to conserve woodland ecosystems as “one of the best ways of getting us back on track to 1.5 degrees” of warming. This Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership is […]

<p class="MsoNormal">Grappling with poverty and his family's inability to provide for him and his siblings, 32-year-old Chrispen Mwene was just 13 when he started cutting down and burning trees to make charcoal in Zambia's Katoba district, about 120 kilometers outside the capital, Lusaka. <o:p></o:p></p> <p>Now he is a member of the Youth Climate Champions, teaching community members about the hazards of the charcoal industry and advocating for alternative economic and energy options.<o:p></o:p></p>