Forests: Key to Confronting Climate Change

Forests: Key to Confronting Climate Change

When forests are destroyed, they release large quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change.

Forests are the largest storehouse of carbon after the oceans. However, when forests are destroyed by activities such as logging and land conversion for agriculture, they release large quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Reducing deforestation and forest degradation must be part of the solution to the global climate change problem. Forests have a critical role to play in combating climate change, and WWF is implementing a strategy around the world to win that battle.

Learn more about that strategy, REDD+, here: http://bit.ly/29ShuIq

Source: WWF

Region: Global