Many delegates at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference hope that reforestation, reduced deforestation and forest degradation (popularly known as REDD +) will be incorporated into the agreement that comes out of Copenhagen and help restore, conserve and protect forests of the world.
Forests are important because science informs that almost 17- 20 per cent of greenhouse gases (ghs) especially CO2, come from deforestation and forest degradation.
Delegates hope that they can agree that temperatures should not be allowed to rise by more than 1.5 C.
There seems to be a consensus that forests be part of the solutions to climate change.
But forests are important to us for many other reasons besides carbon.
For example, forests generate essential environmental goods and services such as water, food, fuel, income and medicine.
In Africa, poverty is one of the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation.
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