英联邦The Commonwealth：2024年森林碳工具箱（英文版）

Forests are crucial for maintaining biodiversity and act as a natural sink for carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions.1 They are vital carbon vaults that, together, absorb around 2.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, or about a third of humanity’s annual fossil fuel emissions. This is in addition to providing timber and non-timber forest products. Thus, forests play a significant role in fulfilling the Paris Agreement objectives, providing opportunities to deploy climate-change mitigation ac