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Saving forests for future generations on #IntlForestDay and beyond
These days, one might think understanding the importance of forests for our planet should not be hard - even a fifth grader knows that forests are the lungs of the Earth. Yet despite this common knowledge, the world’s forest area continues to decrease at alarming rate due to the expansion of agriculture, timber production, urbanization, and road construction. According to the last Global Forest Resources Assessments released last year by FAO, each year more than 7 million hectares of natural forests are lost and 50 million hectares of forestland are burned.
GEF Integrated Approach Pilot: Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains
Today, soy, beef and palm oil yield about $92 billion a year to producers, many of whom are small-scale rural farmers. These commodities thus become important in many local and national economies. Therefore, sustainability within commodities will only be achieved by linking long-term national sustainable development plans with day-to-day value chain management.
GEF Guardians of the Forests
The 11th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) wrapped up Friday at the UN headquarters in New York City after two weeks of heavy negotiations. While discussing the future of the International Arrangement on Forests (IAF), the Forum positively recognized the importance of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as funder of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and welcomed its continued support.
GEF reaffirms its strong support for Sustainable Forest Management at UNFF 11
Forests provide a wide range of goods and ecosystem services, such as food, wood, water catchment protection, climate regulation, biological diversity and aesthetic enjoyment. Everyone depends on these goods and services, yet over the past 50 years humans have changed forest ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any other historical period. Rates of deforestation remain stubbornly high and the extent of forest degradation is only now becoming clear.
Forests and the GEF: A Brief Look at two Decades of Support for Forests
Over its 24-year history, the GEF has recognized the multiple functions of forests and promoted appropriate management systems to develop long-term, sustainable approaches to maintaining forests, the goods and services they provide, and the livelihoods they support.
Conserving Timor Leste’s Rich Forest Land
Timor Leste’s lush rain forests and hardwoods have long been a major resource for its communities. Mirroring similar trends across the world, however, the island’s forest cover has decreased by an estimated 50-70%, - or by almost 30 percent between 1972 and 1999 alone. This leaves around 41 percent of Timor-Leste’s land forested, with the occasional small pocket of primary forest still intact.
Taking Tropical Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains
Many globally traded agriculture products have become indispensable fixtures in the human food chain; making their way into a vast array of foods and goods consumed by billions of people around the world. They represent a significant part of the global commodities trade and have become dominant economic forces in many national and local economies. The environmental footprint of these products in the quest to feed a growing population and meet the aspiration of a rising global middle class has been nothing short of dramatic.
El FMAM esta listo para encarar medidas internacionales en el ambito forestal
En el inicio de la Cumbre sobre el Clima organizada por las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, que anticipa la adopción de la Declaración de Nueva York sobre Bosques en los más altos niveles, el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (FMAM) está plenamente preparado para brindar mayor respaldo a los bosques a escala mundial.
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