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Nov 15, 2024 | 
bhartiyamedia.com | Yamide Dagnet |Amanda Maxwell |Zak Smith |Jennifer Skene
BAKU, Nov 15 (IPS) – The United States just went through its most consequential election. While the outcome raises questions about what the re-election of Trump means for U.S. engagement in global climate talks moving forward (in view of his previous stunt), the game is still on, with or without him. Despite the challenges, local communities, cities, states, private actors, and the public more broadly have embarked on an unstoppable journey—upholding the spirit of the Paris Agreement.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
ipsnews.net | Yamide Dagnet |Amanda Maxwell |Zak Smith |Jennifer Skene
Biodiversity, Conferences, COP16, COP29, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Reprint| | Print|BAKU, Nov 15 2024 (IPS) - The United States just went through its most consequential election.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene
At last year’s UN climate conference in Dubai, Parties left no doubt about the ambition on forest protection necessary to averting the worst impacts of climate change. The Global Stocktake (GST) decision, signed by 193 countries, included in its roadmap to preventing exceeding 1.5 degrees of warming a 2030 deadline for halting and reversing deforestation and land degradation.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
nrdc.org | Ashley Jordan |Shelley Vinyard |Jennifer Skene
In 2019, NRDC published The Issue with Tissue, a report that spotlighted the link between major U.S. tissue product manufacturers and the destruction of one of the most ecologically important forests in the world, the boreal forest of Canada. It also included a scorecard for consumers, ranking major toilet paper, paper towel, and facial tissue brands on their sustainability for forests and the climate.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene
After decades of incremental global efforts, leaving too many commitments and promises unfulfilled, the international community has an opportunity to finally deliver on forest protection. Countries have begun negotiations around implementing the recommendations emerging from the Global Stocktake (GST), a roadmap to meeting international climate targets agreed at last year’s UN climate conference (COP28) that includes calls for halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene |Shelley Vinyard
Since its creation in 2012, International Day of Forests, has been a celebration of transformation. Landing on March 21st each year, it coincides with a moment of impending change, as the world’s forests prepare for their most dramatic annual transitions—the imminent verdure of spring in the north and technicolor of fall in the south. It’s a time of global inhalation, of a world poised to move forward into a new moment.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene
Canada’s international reputation for forest sustainability has thrived on illusion, on manipulating perception so that impacts to the forest, no matter how profound, recede into mollifying mirage. 1.3 million acres of annual clearcuts are not deforested—they are simply forests in a different, maybe even soon to be better, form. The tens of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide logging emits are hidden behind creative accounting.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene
In the frenzied final hours of this year’s climate negotiations, as leaders clashed with a few remaining laggards over the existential need to phase out fossil fuels, there was a less visible, but profoundly consequential, diplomatic tussle over nature’s place in climate mitigation. Ultimately, more than 190 countries didn’t just bring down the curtain on fossil fuels–they also enshrined a new era of equitable, global ambition on the protection of the world’s climate-critical forests.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene
After more than 30 years of countries' failed promises, lapsed deadlines, and policy gamesmanship in the face of the relentless erosion of the world’s forests, the global community is calling for accountability.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
nrdc.org | Jennifer Skene
Nearly two years ago, at COP26 in Glasgow, more than 140 countries signed a groundbreaking agreement, the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, committing to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. In that time, however, even as the urgency grows more palpable, with rising temperatures and a steady cascade of extreme weather, forest policy has remained largely trapped in the theoretical, hindered by a lack of meaningful accountability mechanisms.
