"It is essential that it is implemented now for people and planet."Īlison Hoare, a senior research fellow at political think tank Chatham House, said world leaders promised in 2014 to end deforestation by 2030, "but since then deforestation has accelerated across many countries."įorests are important ecosystems and provide a critical way of absorbing carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas - from the atmosphere. "Signing the declaration is the easy part," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Twitter. More than US$19 billion in public and private funds have been pledged toward the plan.Įxperts and observers said fulfilling the pledge will be critical to limiting climate change, but many noted that such grand promises have been made before - to little effect.
Among them are several countries with massive forests, including Brazil, China, Colombia, Congo, Indonesia, Russia and the United States. said it has received pledges from leaders representing more than 85 per cent of the world's forests to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. Johnson had a message for negotiators from around the globe who will strain over the next 10 days to turn politicians' climate promises into reality: "The eyes of the populations of the world are on you." The conference aims to keep the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels - the goal set at the Paris climate conference six years ago. Johnson said at a news conference that it was important to "guard against false hope," but added that he was "cautiously optimistic" about the outcome of the talks. Sign up here to receive The Climate Barometer, delivering climate and environmental news to your inbox every week.
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