In India, authorities need to restore most of the forests. Both, forest conservation and land restoration require a combination of philanthropy and Government support, believes an ecologist who just returned from the two-week-long UN Climate .
New Delhi, December 17 (IANS): In India, authorities need to restore most of the forests. Both, forest conservation and land restoration require a combination of philanthropy and Government support, believes an ecologist who just returned from the two-wee
The world is not on track to achieve forest goals of ending and reversing deforestation by 2030, critical for a credible pathway to the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goal, according to a new report by the UN-REDD Programme, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Green Gigaton Challenge (GGC). It finds that for the 2030 goals to remain within reach, a one gigaton milestone of emissions reductions from forests must be achieved not later than 2025, and yearly after that.