{"id":3091,"date":"2022-04-27T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2022-06-21T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:27:15","slug":"solutions-to-stop-deforestation-that-do-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/solutions-to-stop-deforestation-that-do-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions to Stop Deforestation That Do Not Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many people think that planting more trees is the natural solution to deforestation and climate change<\/a>. In fact, this view is surprisingly widespread. 90 per cent of American adults approve of planting a trillion trees to fight climate change.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n In 2019, even the British newspaper The Daily Mail \u2013 hardly known for its environmentalism \u2013 urged readers to plant a tree.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/span>But will such solutions stop deforestation?<\/span><\/p>\n Our current approach to stop deforestation is clearly not working. We are still losing forest cover worldwide at an alarming rate. A forest area \u2013 the same size as the UK \u2013 is being lost every year, a report found in 2019. <\/span>But we can\u2019t tackle deforestation simply through promises by world leaders, said Charlotte Streck, who published the report<\/a>. \u201cWe don\u2019t need more important guys standing up making pledges. We need to go beyond declarations\u201d, she stated. Government and companies can only tackle deforestation through proper financing, detailed plans and on-the-ground implementation.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Campaigners say that governments need to allocate more money to stopping deforestation. The funds can be used for enforcement against illegal land-grabbing, illegal burning of forest land and to help local communities preserve forest land. It would also help if governments got better at tracking food in the supply chain to ensure that it is coming from legitimate sources.<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nExisting solutions to stop deforestation: Are they enough?<\/h2>\n