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Today's #COP26 announcement on deforestation sets a topline target "halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030" but has no specifics and no comment on deforestation in the 2020s. ukcop26.org/glasgow-leaders-declaration-on-forests-and-land-use/Permalink On twitter.com
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Greenpeace International condemns announcement as useless, toothless, lacking ambition: "There’s a very good reason Bolsonaro felt comfortable signing on to this new deal. It allows another decade of forest destruction and isn’t binding." greenpeace.org/international/press-release/50360/cop26-greenpeace-condemns-green-light-decade-forest-destruction/Permalink On twitter.com
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Indigenous demand to protect 80% of Amazon Basin from deforestation by 2025. Coverage: reuters.com/business/environment/indigenous-leaders-push-new-target-protect-amazon-deforestation-2021-09-05/ Declaration: amazonia80x2025.earth/declaration/On twitter.com
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As you can see here (accessible text in prior link), the indigenous proposal has a concrete vision with teeth.Permalink On twitter.com
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Science Panel for the Amazon (@theamazonwewant) has called for "An immediate moratorium on deforestation in areas that are approaching tipping points, and zero deforestation and degradation across the region by 2030."Permalink On twitter.com
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Meanwhile Brazil's government is pledging to end deforestation by 2028, but with most of that reduction coming after 2025. reuters.com/article/uk-climate-un-brazil-idUKKBN2HM2RYPermalink On twitter.com
