In the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal, on November 2, 2021, 100 world leaders are set to make promise to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.

Highlights

• Brazil will be among the signatories. In Brazil stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down.
• The pledge includes around $19.2bn of public and private funds.
• This move has been welcomed by experts. However, they have warned that a previous deal in 2014 had “failed to slow deforestation at all”.
• Deforestation contributes to climate change as it depletes forests that absorb significant amounts of global warming gas CO2.

About COP26

COP26 is being hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in Glasgow.  On November 2, 2021, he will sign a landmark agreement for protecting and restoring earth’s forests because forests are lungs of the earth.