"The Forgotten Solution" Coalition Writes from Climate Summit to United Nations: Don’t Forget Forests, Food and Land
September 14 2018 - 03:50PM
Business Wire
Stilt-walkers dressed as giant trees will
deliver a letter this afternoon (Friday, Sept. 14) to the driver of
an electric car, to be driven coast-to-coast from the climate
summit in San Francisco to the United Nations in New York and
handed over to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Keeping global temperatures under a 2-degree
rise will require enormous carbon savings from forests, food, and
lands – nearly as much as from renewable energy – say leading
environmental groups represented this week at the Global Climate
Action Summit.
Accordingly, the coalition behind "the
forgotten solution" campaign has released their open letter calling
on world leaders to do everything necessary "to secure, by
2030, achievement of 30 percent of the Paris Agreement goals from
natural climate solutions in the forests, food and land sector."
International climate talks resume this December in Poland, after
New York marks Climate Week, Sept. 24-30.
"Fortunately, research also shows that stronger
action in the land sector could deliver up to, and possibly over,
30% of emission reductions needed by 2030 to achieve the goals of
the Paris Agreement” to address climate change, the letter goes on,
“while lifting a billion people out of poverty, creating 80 million
jobs and adding an additional $2.3 trillion in productive growth to
the global economy. "
Signers include: American Forests, Avoided
Deforestation Partners, Climate Focus, Conservation International,
Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, George Mason
University's Center for Climate Change Communication,
Nature4Climate, Rainforest Alliance, SystemIQ, The Nature
Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, United Nations Foundation,
World Resources Institute, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the
World Wildlife Fund.
The groups are calling for 30% of carbon
savings by 2030 from forests, food, and land
(see www.climatelandchallenge.org) and for these natural
climate solutions to no longer be “the forgotten solution”
(see www.theforgottensolution.org).
See full text of their letter to the UN here.
The giant walking trees will hand it over today (Friday) at 3 pm
Pacific in Duboce Park, Lower Haight, San Francisco.
Photos of the trees featured at summit events
this week are available at this link.
Actor Alec Baldwin and renowned scientist Jane
Goodall are featured in a new video on the forgotten solution, also
released today.
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