Climate change has been a topic worth talking about for years but it seems like nothing has changed and no improvement can be seen. As years go by, the glaciers continue to melt, there have been multiple wild fires and many species of flora and fauna have become endangered. These problems have arose due to man-made causes of global warming with an increase of CO2 emissions and other Greenhouse Gases.
The importance of trees and forests is key in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but with continued deforestation, it makes it more difficult to combat global warming and conserve the environment.
In a United Nations article written by Hans Hoogeveen titled, “Forests and Climate Change: From Complex Problem to Integrated Solution” he mentions that forests are linked to both the problem and solution to climate change and focuses on various solutions in discovering the relationship and balance between them. The article talks about the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the means by which these organizations create a framework to battle climate change and sustainable forest management and should work together in order to approach the Global Warming problem. Although these organizations work very differently, the benefits of working together outweigh the disadvantages. Hoogeveen lists that working together on forest related climate change issues can only be achieved by working together and benefits sustainable development in other areas as well. He states that by working together follows the UN system.
References
Hoogeveen, Hans. “Forests and Climate Change: From Complex Problem to Integrated Solution.” United Nations, United Nations, https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/forests-and-climate-change-complex-problem-integrated-solution.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 