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Primary tropical forest cover continued to decrease at an alarming rate in 2022, making the goal of net zero deforestation by 2030 even more unattainable.

World leaders are meeting in Egypt next week for this year’s United Nations climate summit. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is planning to skip COP27, calling it little more than an occasion for greenwashing. She’s right to be frustrated with the state of the global response to this crisis.

Forests in Russia are most affected, as scientists warn of escape of huge quantities of buried carbon dioxide

Big companies are increasingly setting voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets that are derived from the 1.5 C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. As part of these science-based targets or longer-term net-zero targets, companies commit to rapidly reducing the emissions that come from their electricity consumption.