Global Forests and the Fight Against Deforestation

Join us for a talk on global forests and the fight against deforestation, featuring climate change specialist Sylvie Lemmet. 

Forests in the world are an incredible natural asset, but have been shrinking over time as a consequence of human pressure and, specifically, the need for food and shelter, combined with the use of the wood resource itself. The primary drivers of deforestation are therefore agriculture, urban pressure, and the sale of harvested timber. It is therefore these root causes that must be addressed if we are to preserve this asset and combat deforestation. Deforestation indeed generates greenhouse gas emissions and causes a loss of biodiversity, which is particularly rich in tropical forests.

All countries have acknowledged the importance of halting deforestation and during the climate COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, over 100 countries committed to end deforestation by 2030. Some tropical countries have clearly succeeded in curbing the trend of deforestation, whereas it remains, on the contrary, highly significant in others. This discussion withSylvie Lemmet, economist, specialist of climate change, energy and environment, will attempt to draw some lessons from more than 20 years of forest preservation and the international fight against deforestation.