Climate Crisis, Sustainable Development, Slow Progress, the IPCC and the Convention on Biological Diversity + International Day of Forests
Now you will understand why Greta Thunberg is (rightly so) angry. Slow is an euphemism when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. Just see below the timeline.
First, the good news.
It is International Day of Forests
Yay!
The Role of Forests in Sustainable Production/Consumption
Everything, really. From medicines, to paper, to… you name it. We own it to forests. Rain Forest. Water. Biodiversity. Flora and fauna. Plants that cure diseases in the Amazon. Pine trees in the Alps. Cactus flowers in New Mexico. Near extinction savage beasts that keep the ecosystem in balance. Wolves, eating the deer that upset the trees that house the birds that eat the insects that eat your harvest. Capice? As a Martin Scorsese character would say.
Did you know?
Forests are home to about 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, with more that 60,000 tree species.
Around 1.6 billion people depend directly on forests for food, shelter, energy, medicines and income.
The world is losing 10 million hectares of forest each year - about the size of Iceland
Source: FAO 2020
Happening today till the 25 March:
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