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3. Elizabeth Wathuti (Kenya): Climate Youth Champion From Kenya | Green Generation Initiative | Voices of Change (5:39)
- Most of what is happening in the world right now is because we have chosen profits over people and our planet.
- As the lungs of the Earth, forests absorb a third of the global carbon dioxide emissions warming the planet.
- They combat climate change, buffer the impacts of storms and floods and provide food, water, shelter and jobs for many communities.
- We are losing 12 million hectares of forest every year due to deforestation – one of the biggest sources of global emissions.
- Africa is home to close to a fifth of the world’s forests, and every year, it loses nearly 3 million hectares of forest.
- Today, the growing impacts of climate change are making it harder to reverse forest loss and land degradation across the continent.
- At the Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in 2021, 141 countries agreed to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030.
- The pledge, which includes $19.2 billion of funding, is a landmark move for nature.
- Now, the world has to turn the commitments into actions.
- The African continent is not only the most impacted by the climate crisis, but it is also where most of the solutions are happening.
- The benefits of forest conservation and restoration are countless: they reduce poverty and hunger, protect biodiversity, boost rural economies, create millions of green jobs and ensure sustainable growth.
- Climate action is about system change and individual responsibility.
- Every fraction of a degree matters, every voice can make a difference, and every second counts. – Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
- People power is what is going to make a huge and real difference in the world today.
