{"id":210395,"date":"2022-10-13T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210395"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:41:07","slug":"we-need-a-forest-led-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/we-need-a-forest-led-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"We need a forest-led COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cWe need a forest-led COP27\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu <\/strong>on 13th October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Environment<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>The article explains the need of moving away from technological solutions and having a forest-led approach to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n

There are calls for developing technology to fight climate change across the world.<\/p>\n

COP26 at Glasgow also emphasised on technological solutions.<\/p>\n

Why technology alone is not sufficient to fight climate change?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Every technological solution discussed at COP26 depends on just three resources: non-emitting electricity, carbon capture and storage (CCS) or biomass.<\/p>\n

The total demand for those resources required by the plans discussed at COP26 cannot be met by 2050. We currently have 4kWh\/day of non-emitting electricity per person. But the COP26 plans require 32. We currently have 6kg of Carbon capture and storage per person per year, but the COP26 plans require 3600.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Carnegie Institution <\/strong>found that the world would need a nuclear plant every day between 2000 and 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change.<\/p>\n

In 2018, MIT Technology Review <\/strong>reported that at the given rate, the world will take nearly 400 years to transform the energy system.<\/p>\n

What forest led approach is needed to tackle climate change?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Our climate crisis is linked with other complex issues. We need multi-pronged, interconnected climate solutions<\/strong>. There is an intersection of the climate change crisis and the biodiversity crisis. Forests are home to 80% of terrestrial wildlife. Therefore they need protection.<\/p>\n

Forests absorb a net 7.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 a year. A new study has found that they have a tendency to cool the earth by an additional 0.5%.<\/p>\n

The conservation of forests along with other nature-based solutions are needed. It can provide up to 37% of the emissions reductions needed to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n

Why is there a need for conserving natural sinks?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The IPCC Land Report estimates that land serves as a large CO2 sink.<\/p>\n

Emission reduction can be achieved by conserving natural sinks, improving biodiversity protection, and restoring ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cWe need a forest-led COP27\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th October 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Environment News- The article explains the need of moving away from technological solutions and having a forest-led approach to tackle climate change. There are calls for developing technology to fight climate change… Continue reading We need a forest-led COP27<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-210395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704936417},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}