This video highlights that continuing deforestation and forest degradation account for almost one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions more than the entire global transport sector. It explains how society can combat climate change by conserving and managing existing forests, by tackling causes of deforestation and by planting new forests. It stresses the use of wood as a renewable energy source and as a raw material, pointing out that wood products store carbon for their entire lifetime, until they decay or are burned.
Organization: FAO, Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom
Topics: Agriculture and Food, Forestry, Mitigation
Type of material: Audio-Visual Resource
Publication date: 2010
Language: English