Shafaqna English- UN’s forestry experts warned that decades of progress in protecting the planet’s forests, which help reduce carbon dioxide, are at risk due to the accelerating climate crisis.
In a call to world leaders to boost protection of forests as they prepare for the COP-30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) noted that carbon storage in forests has risen by 11 per cent since 1990.
“The message is clear: What we have achieved over the last three decades is now at serious risk from the climate emergency. We cannot afford to lose the planet’s most powerful natural defence,” said UNECE’s Executive Secretary Tatiana Molcean.
Amid a rising number of wildfires and droughts globally linked to warmer temperatures, drier conditions and pest infestation, Molclean maintained that the world’s forests risk being damaged and overexploited beyond repair.
Sources: News.un.org