EnglishIf you are a supporter of Paso Pacífico, you are already aware of the vital importance of healthy forests to the environment of our whole planet. A large part of our work involves protection of forest habitats and re-forestation projects.
So we were pleased when at the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Scotland, 145 countries pledged to halt and reverse land degradation and forest loss by 2030. (Glasgow Leader’s Declaration). Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, but two years on from that, the loss of forests has actually increased, not halted or reversed. Whilst many countries publish fine-sounding aspirations for the environment, their actions reflect a very different agenda. That is why Paso Pacífico has joined over 100 other organizations in petitioning the current COP28 summit in Dubai to establish an oversight mechanism called the Glasgow Declaration Accountability Framework to make signatories accountable for the steps they are taking to protect forests.
You can read the petition at this link
The Natural Resources Defense Council gives more detail at here.