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BONN, Germany – Rich developed countries are attempting to cheat on accounting for their carbon emissions from logging and will only agree to ambitious overall greenhouse gas reduction targets if they get the forestry loopholes they demand, warned the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.Under this unacceptable approach, the atmosphere would see substantially more emissions in greenhouse gasses.Over the past few days at UN climate change talks in Bonn, a growing number of countries, almost…See More

Bonn – As climate change negotiations resume here this week, a coalition of environmental campaigners has called on the UN’s scientific and technological advisory body(1) to create a new forest definition that differentiates natural forests from plantations. This is needed to prevent global efforts to protect forests and the climate from being undermined, according to the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA).The UN’s current definition of “forests” fails to distinguish between intact natural…See More