Agriculture is the direct driver for worldwide deforestation

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 09:00 in Earth & Climate

A new synthesis on drivers of deforestation and forest degradation was published during the Bangkok climate change negotiations. The report stresses the importance of knowing what drives deforestation and forest degradation, in order to be able to design and monitor effective REDD+ policies to halt it.

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