According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, stopping deforestation and fostering forest restoration might help achieve more than one-third of the necessary climate change mitigation by 2030. Because of their capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon, forests are essential in the fight against climate change now more than ever. Pachama claims that the measurement of this forest carbon capture is underdeveloped due to a lack of reliable data, which causes some very hazy reporting about the capacity of forest programs to lower net emissions. It is challenging to determine whether the numerous forest conservation projects currently underway are meaningfully reducing emissions due to this lack of transparency, which more often than not results in “well-intentioned greenwashing,” according to a recent article by the Yale School of Environment.
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