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Frontiers’ volunteers: Riding for restoration and… cake

Frontiers

When people think of Switzerland, deforestation and destruction of ecosystems doesn’t really come to mind. However, the reality is that from 2001 to 2020, Switzerland lost 40.3kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.6% Deforestation also releases millions of tons of stored carbon, disrupting our already fragile climate.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

10] As wealthy nations develop and farms become more productive, grasslands, forests, and wildlife are returning. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Riley, “Estimates of Regional and Global Life Expectancy, 1800–2001,” Population and Development Review 31, no.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Sustainable Development : This legal term described as thus: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" and tied to the generational equity and equality principle.