Advertisement
Supported by
Wildfires and agricultural expansion have reversed the gains made in protecting tropical forests last year.
By Manuela Andreoni
Despite major advances in protecting vast swathes of rainforest, the world has yet to particularly slow the rate of forest destruction globally last year, according to a report released Thursday. Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and the expansion of agriculture offset significant gains in forest cover. in Brazil and Colombia, according to the report.
The annual survey by the World Resources Institute, a research organization, shows that the world lost nine. 1 million acres of number one rainforest in 2023, the equivalent of a domain nearly the length of Switzerland, or about nine percent less than last year. year. But those innovations have failed to put the world on the right path to halt all forest loss by 2030, a commitment made by 145 countries at the global climate talks in Glasgow in 2021 and reaffirmed across countries last year.
Thank you for your patience as we determine access. If you’re in Reader mode, log out and log in to your Times account or subscribe to the full Times.
Thank you for your patience as we determine access.
Already a subscriber? Sign in.
Want all the Times? Subscribe.
Advertising