On Nov. 2, more than 100 countries signed on to an ambitious plan to halt deforestation by 2030 and pledged billions of dollars to the effort. Although world leaders lauded the move, climate activists say they’ve heard that promise before and that past efforts have come up short — the world is still losing massive numbers of trees each year.
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Washington Post: The world has pledged to stop deforestation before but trees are still disappearing
Aerial view showing a deforested area of Amazonia rainforest in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2021. The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, the so-called "lungs of the Earth".
