NEWS COP26: World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030

[Periplus]

 

[Periplus]

@Kool-Aid and @Dino right now.

 

[Nilotic]

We seriously need to provide our populations with energy sources that obviate their need to cut down trees; we also need to plant more trees.

Climate change thing has devastated my Country with droughts and Biblical-like floods for 3 consecutive years; our mis-leaders in Juba have done absolutely nothing to help the people.

To put things into perspective, our oil money provided us with the funds to construct dikes, seawalls and levees to prevent flooding; our mi-leaders stole almost $20 billion dollars since 2005...

..And we would have needed around $2 billion to prevent or drastically reduce the occurrence and impact of flooding; we have a large swamp (the Sudd) that absorbs around 50 thousand gigalitres of water a year -- periodically causing flooding over an area of 130, 000 km2.

 

[World]

Brazil hahaha

 

[Nilotic]

Brazil hahaha

Why is this funny?

 

[World]

Why is this funny?

Because Brazil is destroying the Amazon rainforest, they cut over 10,000 acres every day. It used to be a great carbon absorber, but now it actually releases more carbon that it stores. Since Jair Bolsonaro became President, deforestation has increased.

 

[Periplus]

We seriously need to provide our populations with energy sources that obviate their need to cut down trees; we also need to plant more trees.

Climate change thing has devastated my Country with droughts and Biblical-like floods for 3 consecutive years; our mis-leaders in Juba have done absolutely nothing to help the people.

To put things into perspective, our oil money provided us with the funds to construct dikes, seawalls and levees to prevent flooding; our mi-leaders stole almost $20 billion dollars since 2005...

..And we would have needed around $2 billion to prevent or drastically reduce the occurrence and impact of flooding; we have a large swamp (the Sudd) that absorbs around 50 thousand gigalitres of water a year -- periodically causing flooding over an area of 130, 000 km2.

Same thing in Somalia, people are cutting down trees for charcoal yet wondering why droughts are increasing in frequency.

Funnily enough, Somalia isn’t a signatory to this agreement.

I don’t even know if they attended this lol.

 

[NordicSomali]

Unfortunately market prices don't reflect 20-30 years into the future.

 

[xoxoboredgirl]

Because Brazil is destroying the Amazon rainforest, they cut over 10,000 acres every day. It used to be a great carbon absorber, but now it actually releases more carbon that it stores. Since Jair Bolsonaro became President, deforestation has increased.

Bolsonaro is incompetent, he messed up with regards to Covid too

 

[Anubis]

Bezos pledges $2BN for restoring nature:

COP26: Bezos pledges $2bn for restoring nature - BBC News

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tells the COP26 climate meeting he was inspired by his recent space trip.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Anubis]

Over 100 nations pledge to end deforestation by 2030

 

[Kool-Aid]

That money is just ganna end up being wasted!

 

[repo]

That money is just ganna end up being wasted!

It's a comically small amount of money.