Forests and climate

Fires burn in a peatland consession, Kampar Peninsula, Indonesia. The Kampar Peninsula is the last large intact area of peat swamp forest in Riau. Indonesia is the world's third largest climate polluter, due in part to rampant destruction of peatland forests for palm oil plantations.

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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.

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