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Climate finance, offset rules and indigenous rights all need attention at this year’s UN climate summit.

Environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace have already come out strongly against the idea of boosting a market to trade carbon offsets rather than erase emissions

"National climate pledges would collectively require 1.2 billion hectares (about 3 billion acres) of land, researchers have found in a new study, The Land Gap Report."

The Land Gap Report found this is 'close to the extent of current global cropland' and is 'unrealistic' and 'unfeasible'

By Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) - Current climate pledges focus too much on land-based carbon sinks such as tree planting rather than food production and biodiversity, researchers from Australia, Denmark, Sweden and elsewhere said in a report on Tuesday. Scientists agree land use, including forestation, must be part of the fight against climate change and the International Panel on Climate Change says tropical deforestation must be reversed by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). At the COP26 climate summit last year, 145 countries signed a declarat...