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Methane emissions are the second largest contributor to global warming. The gas has a global warming potential over 80 times that of carbon dioxide over a 20-year horizon. It contributes 31% of the net warming impact of all well-mixed green-house gas emissions. Anthropogenic methane emissions account for 60% of total methane emissions. However, methane has a shorter lifetime in the atmosphere…

The document summarizes the report that, based on a review of more than 250 studies, demonstrates the importance and urgency of climate action to protect the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories of Latin America as well as the indigenous and tribal peoples who protect them. These territories contain about a third of the continent's forests. That's 14% of the carbon stored in tropical…

World leaders will attempt to revive international environmental talks on Monday during a global summit on biodiversity. The One Planet Summit’s organisers hope to restart international efforts to protect nature ahead of UN biodiversity talks this year which had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. France is hosting the event in Paris alongside the United Nations and the…

In the past five years, the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) has mobilized leaders across 30 countries to fight climate change, rural poverty, and the erosion of the continent’s biodiversity. To achieve those goals, governments have committed to restore nearly 126 million hectares of land, an area the size of Egypt, by growing trees in forests and on farms,…

For some 40 years, ISRIC – World Soil Information has been providing significant support to the international science community by collecting and archiving regional-, national- and global-scale maps of soils and land resources. Despite effective procedures for storage and maintenance, most organizations involved in archiving struggle to arrest the deterioration of paper maps and the quality of…

QU Dongyu joined President Macron and The Prince of Wales at One Planet Summit. 11 January 2021, Paris/Rome - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, today appealed for an urgent scale-up of Africa's Great Green Wall initiative to restore degraded land, create jobs and address climate change. The Director-General spoke in…