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“The good news is that protecting forests is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to take a big bite out of the apple when it comes to emissions" OR “Forests store an estimated 300 billion tons of carbon, or the equivalent of 40 times the world's total annual greenhouse-gas emissions…
Destroy the trees and you release that carbon into the atmosphere, putting the great challenge of our age — averting catastrophic climate change — beyond reach. Forest destruction accounts for 15% of global emissions by human activity, far outranking the total from vehicles and aircraft combined.” Time Magazine, November 2009
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Bangkok, 8 April 2011 - On the final day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bangkok (3-8 April), UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that while positive and constructive, the meeting in Thailand had also highlighted continuing divisions between...
Read More...Beijing, Geneva, 8 April 2011 - From pandas to tigers, China is home to some of the most magnificent wild species and plays a prominent role in the conservation and sustainable use of the planet's biodiversity.
Thirty years ago today, China became the...
By Rosa Aguilar Rivero, Minister for Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs of Spain and President of UNEP's Governing Council.
On April 22nd we celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Earth Day created in 1970, a landmark for the environmental movement....
