(Left to right) Joseph Malassi, Ministry of Environment, DRC; Breanna Lujan, EDF; Lola Cabnal, Asociación Ak’Tenamit; Susan Gardner, UNEP; Marina Silva, former Minister of Environment, Brazil; Maggie Charnley, BEIS, UK; Dirk Nemitz, UNFCCC Secretariat; Alue Dohong, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
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Advancing Toward the Glasgow Climate Pact: A Call to Action to Achieve One Gigaton of Emissions Reductions from Forests by 2025
A bold initiative was announced at a COP 27 side event: UN-REDD and the Green Gigaton Challenge seek to mobilize funding to achieve the crucial milestone of one gigaton of annual emissions reductions from forests by 2025, and annually after that. One gigaton is the equivalent of removing 80% of cars from roads in the United States.