Campaign for a Sustainable Planet - Climate and Tropical Forests

Climate and Tropical Forests: Protecting Tropical Forests to Reduce Global Carbon Emissions

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Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. The Conservancy’s strategy to reduce global deforestation includes:

Developing sound and credible approaches to measuring and monitoring carbon;
Testing large-scale pilot programs in Brazil and Indonesia; and
Building the capacity of nations to participate in forest-carbon markets.

Over 10 years, our goal is to prevent the deforestation of about 25 million acres and prevent more than 500 million tons of carbon from being released in the atmosphere.

Indonesia

Can Carbon Markets Save Orangutans?
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Fact Sheet: Climate and Tropical Forests

Find out how protecting tropical forests can reduce global carbon emissions. Download our fact sheet.

In the News

Avoiding deforestation is a key part of global climate change talks, reports the International Herald Tribune.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Lesan River Orangutan Survery Site in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Borneo); © Margo Burnham (Measuring trees in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in Bolivia); © Eileen Herrling (Orangutans); © Tom Eisenhart/TNC (Mato Grosso, Brazil); © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Log yard in East Kalimantan, Indonesia)