Global Deforestation Surges Despite Climate Change Pledges

Source: BBC News - Science and EnvironmentAn area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year as tree losses surged, according to new research. This means that a political pledge to end deforestation made at COP26 by world leaders is well off track. Some 11 football fields of forest were lost every minute in 2022, with Brazil dominating the destruction. But a sharp reduction in forest loss in Indonesia shows that reversing this trend is achievable.