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2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Glenn Scherer |John Cannon |Graeme Green |Justin Catanoso
Human society depends economically and socially on resilient forests, a new report from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations demonstrates. As a result, pushing forests toward collapse threatens human well-being globally, not just in communities in or near forests. The report authors recommend approaches for improving forest resilience, including more inclusive governance and remedying power imbalances.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
2024 will likely be the hottest year on record, surpassing the heat record set in 2023. The resulting extreme heat waves, floods, droughts and wildfires took a terrible toll in death, global suffering and economic loss. The biggest climate change impacts have by far been in the world’s cities. And the world’s cities have responded proactively, becoming climate solution leaders, even as national governments have dragged their feet for nearly three decades.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
brasil.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso |Rhett Butler
Há anos, as nações mais ricas do mundo prometem bilhões a países tropicais para ajudá-los a conservar suas florestas nativas — um esforço que beneficia o mundo inteiro, especialmente pelo armazenamento de carbono que essas florestas tropicais proporcionam, à medida que a crise climática se aprofunda. No entanto, essas promessas de investimento por doadores falharam repetidamente em se concretizar.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
The many years of international delay on climate action — paralleled by year-after-year of rising emissions and record climate disasters — has greatly increased the price tag on preventing a global climate catastrophe. Today, experts estimate addressing the climate emergency will cost trillions of dollars. But who should pay, and how much? This question is expected to top the agenda at COP29, the climate summit, starting Nov.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
In 2015, the world came together to achieve the landmark Paris climate agreement. But in 2016, Donald Trump’s ascendency to the U.S. presidency stunned the world, as he promised to withdrew the U.S. from the Paris accord and moved to disrupt action on climate change.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
The COP16 biodiversity summit ended on a mixed note. Delegates from 177 nations agreed to language saying that companies “should” pay conservation fees for genetic digital sequence information (DSI) from which they profit. Corporate lobbyists ensured this measure was voluntary, but tropical nations could build DSI fees into their laws.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
For years now, the world’s wealthiest nations have pledged billions to tropical nations to help them afford to conserve their native forests — an effort that benefits the entire world, especially for the carbon storage those tropical forests provide, as the climate crisis deepens. But those investment promises by donors, have again and again failed to fully materialize. Today, the total funding shortfall for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is in the trillions of dollars.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Justin Catanoso |Bob Brash |Robert McKellar |David Elstone
Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16 By Justin Catanoso Mongabay October 29, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: International For years, at annual United Nations climate summits, forest advocates eager to draw critical attention to the scientifically dubious benefits of burning forest biomass to make energy were ignored, and their recommendations never added to official UN agendas for discussion or a vote. But here at the UN Biodiversity summit,...
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
Forest advocates have long warned that burning forest biomass to make energy — touted as a climate solution by the forestry industry — releases more carbon emissions than coal does per unit of electricity generated. They’ve argued that cutting trees to turn them into wood pellets degrades forest carbon stores and biodiversity. This week those arguments are finally being heard at the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Justin Catanoso
COP16, the UN biodiversity summit in Colombia is entering its second week. Without the presence of fossil fuel company lobbyists to stall progress, participants are moving fast and developing plans to end “perverse subsidies” gifted by national governments to fossil fuel companies and other sectors to the tune of $1.7 trillion annually. Instead, those subsidies would be repurposed to protect nature and the climate.
