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- The new report was released by the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forest Watch.
- Tropical areas lost 4.1 million hectares of forest cover – equivalent to losing an area of 11 football fields per minute – in 2022.
- This forest loss produced 2.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
- It is around the same as India’s annual emissions due to the combustion of fossil fuels.
- Primary forest cover loss in tropical areas in 2022 was 10% more than in 2021.
- We need to reduce global deforestation by at least 10% every year to meet the 2030 target.
- In 2022, although the global deforestation rate was 3.1% lower than the baseline from 2018-2020.
- To meet the target of restoring 350 Mha of forests globally by 2030, the world needs to increase tree cover by 22 Mha per year, between 2021 and 2030.
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