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UN climate plans too narrow to save forests

NORWAY: World efforts to slow deforestation should do more to address underlying causes such as rising demand for crops or biofuels, widening from a UN focus on using trees to fight climate change, a study said Monday.

It said a series of projects to protect forests had had limited success in recent decades UN figures show that 13 million hectares (32 million acres) of forest were lost every year from 2000-09, an area equivalent to the size of Greece.

The report by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) suggested that the current UN-led efforts to protect forests had too narrow a focus on promoting trees as stores of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.

“Our findings suggest that disregarding the impact of forests on sectors such as agriculture and energy will doom any new international efforts whose goal is to conserve forests and slow climate change,” said Jeremy Rayner, who chaired the IUFRO panel and is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Deforestation accounts for perhaps 10 percent of all emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities.

Trees soak up carbon as they grow but release it when they burn or decay.

The IUFRO study said a key problem was that deforestation, from the Amazon to the Congo, was often caused by economic pressures far away.

A popular global brand of cookies, for instance, uses palm oil grown on deforested land in Indonesia.

Oslo, Monday, Reuters

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