Africa: Brave New World - the Global Trends Changing the Future of Deforestation

2 December 2012

Global trends will intensify the underlying causes of deforestation over the coming decades - unless all countries take responsibility to address them, said experts on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Doha, Qatar.

The world is in the grip of huge changes that will redefine pressures on forests: urbanisation, increasingly meat-based diets, population growth, and booming demand for timber and agricultural products.

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