The 5 Great Forests: A Global Initiative for Intact Primary Forests
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Presentation given by Tom Evans of the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Global Landscapes Forum on 16 November 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco. http://www.landscapes.org/
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The 5 Great Forests: A Global Initiative for Intact Primary Forests
- 1. The 5 Great Forests A Global Initiative for Intact Primary Forests infobrief at 5greatforests.org
- 2. The 5 Great Forests A Global Initiative for Intact Primary Forests What is an intact forest? A forest minimally affected by human activities, and so playing its greatest possible role in the climate system. A forest that has… …not been industrially logged …not been fragmented by infrastructure or farming …not been stripped of its fauna or useful plants …not had its hydrology disturbed or been polluted …kept its natural fire regimes
- 3. Billion Tonnes of Carbon per year
- 4. The 5 Great Forests A Global Collaborative for Intact Primary Forests
- 5. Protected Areas Indigenous and Community-managed lands Inspiring the general public Challenging extractive industries Linking to climate policy and finance A broad coalition working towards a common vision Catalytic investments from MacArthur A broader philanthropic partnership Mobilize other funding streams
- 6. The 5 Great Forests A Global Collaborative for Intact Primary Forests Join us: • Participate as we build the climate case for intact primary forest landscapes, in the 5 Great Forests and beyond. • Shape the initiative – step forward as a funding or implementing partner. • Collaborate to build consensus for this approach across stakeholder groups. Contacts: Tom Evans tevans@wcs.org Christopher Holtz choltz@macfound.org Infobrief: 5greatforests.org
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- Thank you. My name is Tom Evans. I work with the Wildlife Conservation Society. The MacArthur Foundation, represented here today by Chris, who will moderate our panel, is one of the early movers in a new initiative which we hope, in time, will involve many of you in this room. The aim is to secure a future for the world’s great intact forest landscapes. We are going to introduce the initiative to you, and ask you to consider participating in the development phase, which is just getting underway.
- Intact forests, as we see them, are those minimally affected by human activities.. Some of their features are shown here. Importantly, for the audience gathered here for the COP, an intact forest is one that is storing and absorbing as much carbon as it should. This does not mean humans are absent, but it does mean that the harmful effects of industrialization have so far been avoided. Many such forests are occupied or owned by indigenous groups and managed in ways that maintain their integrity. Others persist because of protected areas, zoning decisions, campaigns against harmful development, or even simply because areas are difficult to reach, for now.
- I think this audience is already familiar with the incredible importance of intact forests for the carbon they already store, their biodiversity, their importance for imperilled cultures, their role in the water cycles and moderating local weather, their climate resilience – the list is very long. Click to disappear the pictures Rather than go into great detail about all those values and services, I just want to emphasize one number. Click to show 2.4. I emphasize this number because I think not enough people are aware of it. Click again. 2.4 Gt carbon absorbed from the air each year. This is the incredible size of the terrestrial carbon sink into intact ecosystems, mainly forests. It is driven by primary forests continuing to grow, probably because of the fertilization effect of additional CO2. It does not include, and greatly exceeds, the current sink into regrowing forests. Its around a quarter of all the emissions humanity puts into the air from burning fuels and land use change. It happening in all the major intact forests regions of the world. And without this sink climate change would be getting a great deal worse, a great deal faster.
- Most of the world’s remaining intact forest landscapes are in these five great regions – the American and Russian boreal, the Amazon, Central Africa and the great archipelago from Sumatra to New Guinea. Intactness is being lost in many ways, more often through degradation than outright loss. Roads are a crucial threat. Industrial logging, fragmentation, overhunting, fire in the wrong places. It is a long list. In the best case scenario only around 25% of the world’s forests look truly intact from space – and even some of those have lost their wildlife or been degraded in other, subtle ways. Using one influential metric, the Intact Forest Landscapes mapped by Greenpeace, WRI and the University of Maryland, we lost over 100 million ha in a recent 12 year period. The core idea of this initative is that this loss matters – and its not being adequately addressed. We’d like to see these intact areas being given their proper place in the debate, up there alongside restoration, and alongside the battle to stabilize agricultural frontiers. we need to properly value these areas for climate protection, and recognize the severity of the threats that they face. They may not look so threatened over the next few years, especially if we just look at deforestation, and so may not feature too high in priorities for stopping short term deforestation threats. BUT if we look at scenarios through to 2050, and we look at the full range of threats to carbon stocks and sinks, we find that these areas are far from secure, and action taken now could make a huge difference to their long term future.
- So what will the new initiative bring? We are not promising magical new solutions, but we do think that we can achieve a dramatic step change in the effectiveness of conservation efforts by bringing together existing approaches with the new insights about the importance of intactness in fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement. We also believe that we can bring together a broad coalition of groups from across many sectors, magnifying our impacts further. There are many groups out there who have been working towards these goals for many years, and they have seen some successes but also many defeats. We hope to strengthen all their efforts through greater collaboration, and greater investment, underpinned by humanity’s shared endeavour to address climate change. The MacArthur Foundation has taken a bold initial step and committed to a two year period of developing the foundations for this initiative. They will support concrete actions that will at the same time demonstrate the case for much greater investment over the following 5-10 years. Through this they aspire to build a much broader philanthropic partnership that will mobilize several times as great an investment, and bring a wider range of skills and approaches to bear. Eventually given the scale of the challenge, the goal is to build even more ambitious partnerships with the full range of funding agencies. These will be enabled by the science and practical results emerging from the early phases of the work.
- If you are interested to learn more, especially if you think you may want to get concretely involved as a participant, advisor or funder, and you are interested in shaping the initiative during its development phase, please approach one of us after the session, or contact us by email