Tag: deforestation

With fewer than one third of Paris Agreement signatories submitting updated climate plans, the UN’s new synthesis report shows global pledges would cut emissions by only 10 percent by 2035 as world leaders admit “overshooting is now inevitable.”

The proposal also introduces simplification measures and exemptions that favor EU nation states, the U.S., Canada, Australia and China.

Stand.earth finds financing surges since 2024 while Brazil’s Petrobras pushes new drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River ahead of COP30 in Belém.

The annual report, which analyzed the climate strategies of five of the world’s top 10 food and agriculture corporations, is the latest in a slew of reports that show how the largest food companies are failing to tackle their environmental impacts.

The findings challenge a longstanding assumption about conservation: that in order to protect biodiversity, people must be kept out.

“Almost everyone has a bank account—and so almost everyone can be part of the solution.”

If deforestation emissions were represented as a country, they’d be the fourth biggest emitter behind China, the U.S. and India.

Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate.

Forest loss, along with climate change, is creating a lack of shelter for lizards from extreme temperatures and nearly one in five could face population decline in the next century.

Amazon at the crossroads: deforestation and climate change fuel disease risks.