Zero Deforestation, Widespread Restoration

"World leaders have agreed to a deal that aims to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to tackle human-caused greenhouse gas emissions... [and] to protect vast areas, ranging from the eastern Siberian taiga to the Congo basin... Land-clearing by humans accounts for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, largely deriving from the destruction of the world’s forests for agricultural products such as palm oil, soy and beef. By signing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, presidents and prime ministers from major producers and consumers of deforestation-linked products [have committed] to protect forest ecosystems."