416 parts per million 1
The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere, as of July 2021, is the highest it has been in human history.
2020 was a scorcher
Analysis by NOAA shows that average global temperatures in 2020 were 1.76 degrees F (0.98 degrees C) warmer than the 20th century average — making it the second-hottest year on record. In fact, the seven warmest years in the 1880-2020 record have all occurred since 2014.
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11% of emissions
Eleven percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are due to deforestation 5 — comparable to the emissions from all of the passenger vehicles on the plane
Nature is an untapped solution
Tropical forests are incredibly effective at storing carbon, providing at least a third of the mitigation action needed 7 to prevent the worst climate change scenarios. Yet nature-based solutions receive only 3% of all climate funding
Fight climate change, improve livelihoods — naturally
Natural climate solutions such as restoring degraded forests could create as many as 39 jobs per million dollars spent — that’s a job-creation rate more than six times higher than the oil and gas industry.
