Greenpeace is celebrating an enormous success — the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada. This is the most comprehensive rainforest conservation plan in North American history.
To save our planet from runaway climate change, we need to make it expensive for industry to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And we need to make it profitable for countries like Brazil, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea to preserve their tropical rainforests. Sounds simple but we need real leadership at the Bonn climate conference to get the devil out of the details.
Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forests have a vital role to play in stopping dangerous climate change and could earn billions of dollars from carbon funding. However, a new Greenpeace report questions whether PNG is fit to play the carbon game.
To avoid catastrophic climate change, we need revolution in the way we produce and use energy as well as a global effort to end forest destruction. Tropical forest destruction is responsible for about one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions – more than the world's entire transport sector.
