Mankind is currently destroying about 30 football fields every minute. Forests are extremely important for the preservation of the Earth’s climate and biodiversity; If they fail as a carbon sink and instead release carbon dioxide through slush and burn, it accelerates global warming. Hence overexploitation is expected to end by 2030. At the World Climate Conference in Glasgow on 1 November nearly 100 countries agreed on: The agreement is considered the summit’s first major success., on which concrete goals and measures for climate protection are to be finally agreed.
Signatories include EU countries as well as Canada, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the participating countries, 85 percent of the remaining forest areas of the world can be found. By 2025, just under US$20 billion is expected to be made available from government and private sources to protect forests. A little over a quarter of the participating states have also promised that the increased production of agricultural goods will not ultimately be due to deforestation: these countries represent 75 percent of the global trade in agricultural raw materials.
But is it really a success? While many politicians celebrate the agreement, non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace or WWF criticize that deforestation should continue for about ten years. In Brazil alone, at the current rate of forest destruction, another 100,000 to 150,000 square kilometers of rainforest could be lost.. In other parts of the Amazon, clearing figures are pointing upward, as in the Congo Basin or New Guinea. and even higher and more developed states like Romania Or Australia Overexploitation continues.
