| A New Economic Model for Protecting Tropical Forests Nat Keohane - TED Countdown Summit | |
| go to original April 22, 2022 |
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To solve the climate crisis, we need to make tropical forests worth more alive than dead, says environmental economist Nat Keohane.
Highlighting the urgent need to stop deforestation and the carbon pollution it brings, he details the work of the LEAF Coalition - a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership that's channeling one billion dollars into protecting tropical forests - and shares three building blocks for a robust market for forest carbon that enables economies to thrive while protecting natural resources.
The Importance of Forests
Tropical forests around the world are under threat. The world lost more than 10 million hectares of primary tropical forest cover last year, an area roughly the size of Switzerland. Ending tropical and subtropical forest loss by 2030 is a crucial part of meeting global climate, biodiversity and sustainable development goals. Protecting tropical forests offers one of the biggest opportunities for climate action in the coming decade.
Nat Keohane is president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. He works to design, advocate and build support for effective and ambitious market-based policies to cut climate pollution.
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