A major report published ahead of COP27 analysed national climate policies and found that “over-reliance on carbon removals could push ecosystems, land rights and food security to the brink.”
Further reading:
- Read the full Land Gap Report.
- ‘Nature restoration no substitute for cutting fossil fuels‘; Pursuit, 2022
- ‘No more excuses: restoring nature is not a silver bullet for global warming, we must cut emissions outright‘; The Conversation, 2022
- ‘Forests can’t handle all the net-zero emissions plans – companies and countries expect nature to offset too much carbon‘; The Conversation, 2022
- ‘COP27: Urgent need to respect human rights in all climate change action, say UN experts‘, 2022
