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According to the UN, annually around 12 million ha forest disappears from the planet. This loss of forest cover is said to be responsible for roughly 11 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The impacts of climate change on forests and agriculture were in the spotlight at the United Nations climate change conference (COP21). This included how agriculture, forestry and other land uses are responsible for nearly a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions – about half of that from deforestation and forest degradation, mostly driven by demand for food and wood products and inequities and inefficiencies in the use of land for their production.
“Forest countries in partnership with other governments, the private sector and civil society are set for an increased international effort to eliminate natural deforestation and forest degradation in a few decades,” said Peru’s Minister of the Environment Manuel Pulgar-Vidal speaking at a press conference.
December 03, 2015 at 16:40