International Day of Forests 2018: Pursuing sustainable cities and climate solutions through forest action
Celebrating the importance of woodlands and trees for protecting and sustaining life in urban areas.
Launch of the Global Platform for the New York Declaration on Forests
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announces the launch of a Global Platformfor the New York Declaration on Forests (“NYDF Platform”), at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.
The New York Declaration aims to reduce more climate pollution each year than the United States emits annually, and it doesn’t stop there. Forests are not only a critical part of the climate solution – the actions agreed today will reduce poverty, enhance food security, improve the rule of law, secure the rights of indigenous peoples and benefit communities around the world.
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
The New York Declaration on Forests
The New York Declaration on Forests is a partnership of governments, multinational companies, civil society and indigenous peoples who strive to halve deforestation by 2020 and to end it by 2030. The NYDF outlines ten ambitious global targets related to protecting and restoring forests, which, if realized, have the potential to reduce annual carbon emissions by 4.5 to 8.8 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to the annual emissions of the United States.
Launched at the Climate Summit held at UN Headquarters in New York in September 2014, the Declaration is currently endorsed by more than 190 entities including more than 50 governments, more than 50 of the world’s biggest companies, and more than 50 influential civil society and indigenous peoples’ organizations. Click here to see the current list of NYDF endorsers.
The New York Declaration on Forests
The New York Declaration on Forests is a partnership of governments, multinational companies, civil society and indigenous peoples who strive to halve deforestation by 2020 and to end it by 2030. The NYDF outlines ten ambitious global targets related to protecting and restoring forests, which, if realized, have the potential to reduce annual carbon emissions by 4.5 to 8.8 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to the annual emissions of the United States.
Launched at the Climate Summit held at UN Headquarters in New York in September 2014, the Declaration is currently endorsed by more than 190 entities including more than 50 governments, more than 50 of the world’s biggest companies, and more than 50 influential civil society and indigenous peoples’ organizations. Click here to see the current list of NYDF endorsers.
The NYDF Goals
A #sustainable ranching operation ensures zero #deforestation while increasing farming productivity.
Planting trees to restore the #forests also helps create ecological corridors for animals to move through ranch.
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A #sustainable ranching operation ensures zero #deforestation while increasing farming productivity.
— NYDF Global Platform (@NYDF_Platform) May 25, 2018
Planting trees to restore the #forests also helps create ecological corridors for animals to move through ranch. https://t.co/YVzc9DFtAa@EDFbiz pic.twitter.com/O4YEzHZbYr
Finance strategies for REDD+ and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) can complement each other when coordinated at the sectoral level,
according to a new report from @unredd.
#Download the pdf here: https://t.co/L4NS55zsBM. https://t.co/wxxkOoJ3CK
Finance strategies for REDD+ and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) can complement each other when coordinated at the sectoral level,
— NYDF Global Platform (@NYDF_Platform) May 24, 2018
according to a new report from @unredd. #Download the pdf here:https://t.co/L4NS55zsBM. pic.twitter.com/wxxkOoJ3CK
#Trump’s White House has canceled @NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), which helped monitor #CO2 sources and sinks. Bad news for the 65 global #forest projects that rely on CMS. https://t.co/DqX7XlOm7c
@voooos
@sciencemagazine https://t.co/LV8U15Ua3P
#Trump’s White House has canceled @NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), which helped monitor #CO2 sources and sinks. Bad news for the 65 global #forest projects that rely on CMS. https://t.co/DqX7XlOm7c@voooos @sciencemagazine pic.twitter.com/LV8U15Ua3P
— NYDF Global Platform (@NYDF_Platform) May 24, 2018
