Priorities
The Carbon Association (CAA) for its part works with sovereign Governments and their agencies to provide practical alternatives and financial incentives to save the forests in a sustainable manner. The practical fact and outcome of our world’s growing population, estimated to peck at 9 billion persons, places huge political and commercial pressures on our politician. We must understand that people around the world live and extract their very livelihood from the world’s forests. We can’t just shut the forests down and lock them away. We must learn to work with nature and the forests in a sustainable way. For example:
- 60 million Indigenous people are totally dependent on forests for their livelihood.
- A further 1.6 billion people supplement their quality of life through the forests.
- A further 1.2 billion people earn their living through agro-forestry employment.
UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Current and potential arable land use in Africa, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/current_and_potential
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(Accessed 21 September 2008)
