NRDC forest expert Jennifer Skene speaking at the side event @NRDC

NRDC organized a side event with EPN Biomass Action Network, China Green Carbon Foundation, and Stand Earth. Experts from China, Chile, Nigeria, and Canada discussed the vital role of forest protection to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and to bring in concrete examples that highlight both the kind of solutions we need, and the false solutions we need to prevent. NRDC Global Northern Forests Policy Director Jennifer Skene emphasized the need to align climate action with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and stressed the importance of halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. NRDC and partners urged COP29 negotiators to build on the decision “biodiversity and climate change as one” made in CBD COP16 in Cali and set the stage for greater coordination between the UN conventions to avoid false solutions like biomass and unsustainable industrial logging.