Two days after Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced at climate talks $350 million over the next five years to promote clean energy technologies in developing countries, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today from Copenhagen $1 billion over the next three years to reduce carbon emissions caused by deforestation.
“Protecting the wold’s forests is not a luxury — it is a necessity,” said Vilsack. According to the UN, 20 percent of the world’s carbon emissions are caused by deforestation. The U.S. joins Australia, France, Japan, Norway and the UK to dedicate a total of $3.5 billion in initial public finance for 2010-1012 “toward slowing, halting and eventually reversing deforestation in developing countries.” Learn what causes deforestation to emit so much C02 and how we all affect it in our daily lives. Watch the Green Detectives Decoder video on REDD – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. (Photo: deforestation display inside Bella Center)
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