UNEP called for substantial investment in the forest

 United Nations (UN) is characterized by the international community, to invest in the forestry sector in 2030 increased forty billion U.S. dollars of halving the rate of deforestation, the annual World Environment Day (Wednesday) on Sunday.

 

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said that this large-scale investment, more than two-thirds of the departments spent in the equivalent of today but will increase the rate of about 140 trees per cent by 2050, and to promote the millions of new creation of employment opportunities. "Forests are a key link in the transition to a green economy. They generate income, employment and nutrition, reducing vulnerability, including energy and security," Deputy Executive Director of UNEP Division of Environmental Policy Implementation Tim Karsten press conference in Nairobi the day at the meeting Sunday.

 

He said that this investment support a variety of enabling policies can also archive or delete the right atmosphere for an additional 28 per cent of carbon, which play in tackling climate change a key role.

 

World Environment Day 2011 to announce the international forest in the United Nations, which on the forest and resource efficient green economy to a low carbon transition, the key to the key part of the New Year.

 

It is reported that "forest green economy" by the United Nations Environment Programme launched to mark World Environment Day theme is the forest: the nature of your services, these services, the value of the forest is not confided to developing economies.

 

The report notes that knowledge, vision, favorable conditions and new investment are necessary to achieve the green economy, which is a new economic model based on the full contribution of the forest. "Green Economy Initiative has identified the top ten ability to facilitate the transition to a low carbon one of the central department of forestry, resource efficient, and create employment opportunities to the future, if the investment and forward-looking policy support," UNEP Executive Director of the Aceh Mushitaina wrote: Report. "There have been many since 1990, a net loss of 800 million each year around the forest down to about 500 million hectares, and in such as Asia, the Caribbean and Europe, some of the forest area of ​​these regions has actually increased in 20 years encouraging signs , "Steiner added.

 

The report also stressed that the farms and plantations, including plantations in the part of the program areas of agriculture and forestry industry has grown from 3.6 million hectares in 1990 to 2010, less than 500 million U.S. dollars.

 

The study was introduced this year from the former Brazilian WEB celebrations and Hui Yi at the Rio +20 in 2012, where about 12 months, the world will come together to try to build a new and more decisive response to 21 on sustainable development challenges.

 

Karsten said that more and more political will increase from nature-based assets and mobilize the efforts of the city and the whole earth community tree planting in the private sector. "The world needs to recognize the value of forests and ecosystems, if we are to sustainable development. We want to ensure forest protection, to help create millions of new jobs," Karsten said.

 

He said the carefully planned investment will also help increase employment opportunities, from today to 2050 from 25 million to 30 million.

 

Mobilization of public and private forest investment, UNEP's report highlighted the need for ecosystem services (PES) of payment and deforestation and forest degradation (REDD +) emission reduction effect.

 

PES is designed to compensate for the ecosystem services provided by society, such as carbon storage, watershed protection or biodiversity conservation, land owners voluntary transition program.

 

The report stressed that forests and other natural capital to the total value of the rural poor account for 90 percent of the population of domestic production.

 

India reported that a dozen is assessed taking into account the natural ecological system and bio-economic (ecological economics), sponsored by a broad partnership of UNEP, the world found that the country, which in turn can be transformed into the nature of the country and its value of the services account.

 

In sustainable development and poverty eradication in the green economy is one of the two key issues will be discussed 20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next year.

 

Steiner said that the environment on this day everyone to take action to support and nurture the green shoots of forest green economy as the world toward how best to speed up, scale are achieved in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, these conversions look.