{"id":5889,"date":"2023-12-03T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T23:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T17:05:06","slug":"cop-walk-the-talk-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/cop-walk-the-talk-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"COP: Walk the Talk for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a supporter of Paso Pac\u00edfico, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s Declaration).&nbsp; Perhaps we shouldn\u2019t 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 Pac\u00edfico 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the petition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-11\/gdaf-coalition-letter-final-signed-20231130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Natural Resources Defense Council gives more detail at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/jennifer-skene\/more-100-organizations-call-forest-accountability-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a supporter of Paso Pac\u00edfico, 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 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environmental-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}