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G8 summit: Opportunity for immediate action on climate change
Date:7/2/2008

Carbon Partnership Facility and the Adaptation Fund initially being run by the Global Environment Facility. CI also is developing forest carbon projects around the world that conserve carbon-storing forests and replant destroyed or degraded forests while benefiting local populations.

With other major issues on the G8 summit agenda rising food prices, energy security, African development directly linked to climate change, the meeting offers a chance for a holistic approach to fundamental challenges of our time. As the current G8 president and president of the Convention on Biodiversity's COP10 in 2010, host nation Japan bears a particular responsibility in providing global leadership on these issues.

"The world is finally starting to understand the essential role of tropical forests in maintaining a healthy planet. These forests sequester vast quantities of carbon, and also provide critical ecosystem services like clean water, harbor a major portion of the world's biodiversity, and are home to many of the world's remaining indigenous peoples," said CI President Russell A. Mittermeier. "Germany's leadership on forest conservation is a crucial step that should inspire other countries to make similar commitments. Decisive action to save forests can be the G8's most definitive and vital response so far to climate change."


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Contact: Tom Cohen
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Conservation International
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