Tuntiak Katan, coordinator of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, representing communities from the rainforests of Africa, Latin America and Indonesia, said the announcement raised the visibility of indigenous peoples and local communities as a climate solution to an "unprecedented level". Many welcomed the acknowledgement of indigenous peoples as crucial guardians of forests. The new money behind the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use will help restore degraded land, tackle wildfires and support the rights of indigenous communities.
Greta Thunberg joined activists near the venue and dismissed leaders' words as "blah, blah, blah". President Biden told delegates "this is the decade that will determine the answer" on climate change. Failure at COP would be a "death sentence", UN chief Antonio Guterres warned. Boris Johnson compared the crisis to James Bond strapped to a doomsday device. India's prime minister pledged net-zero by 2070 - 20 years after the key 2050 date. Highlights from the opening of the summit: Subscribe to ClimateCast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. "With today's unprecedented pledges, we will have a chance to end humanity's long history as nature's conqueror, and instead become its custodian."įorests play an essential role in fighting the climate crisis, absorbing vast amounts of planet-heating carbon dioxide from the air, and provide food, jobs and homes.īut campaigners say they are being lost at an alarming rate of one football pitch every two seconds through activities such as commodities, agriculture, urbanisation, wildfire and forestry. The prime minister has been hoping the summit would deliver on priority areas he sees as "coal, cash, cars and trees," so this pledge will tick the trees box.īut the government as host has set the conference's aim to "keep 1.5 degrees alive" and there is still a long way to go on a deal to make the necessary emissions cuts.Īnnouncing the "landmark agreement" on forests at COP26 on Tuesday, Mr Johnson will say: "These great teeming ecosystems. Image: Forests absorb vast amounts of planet-heating carbon dioxide
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