Translation of "tropical forest " (English → French) :

These drivers are set to intensify considerably, increasing pressures in particular on tropical forests, other tropical ecosystems and mountainous ecosystems.

33. Notes that deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for 20 % of global GHG emissions, and emphasises the role of forests in climate change mitigation and the need to enhance the adaptive capacities and resilience of forests to climate change; calls on the EU to pursue its objective of halting global forest loss by 2030 and to at least halve tropical deforestation by 2020, compared with 2008 levels; underlines that achieving these commitments together with restoring 350 million hectares of forests, as called for in the New York Declaration on Forests, could reduce CO2 emissions by 4,5-8,8 billion tons per year by 2030; emphasises that without significant new mitigation efforts focused on the ...[+++]tropical forest sector (REDD+) the achievement of the below 2 °C target is likely to be impossible; calls furthermore for the EU to scale up international finance for reducing deforestation in developing countries;

The preservation of tropical forests is essential for maintaining the planet’s ecological balance and we can state, without exaggeration, that, as such, tropical forests really are the heritage of mankind and that we all bear a responsibility for the conservation of tropical forests.

11. Considers that an effective agreement on tropical timber should have, as its primary objectives, the need to ensure the protection and sustainable management of tropical forests and the restoration of forest areas that have been degraded and that trade in tropical timber should only be encouraged to the extent that it is compatible with those prior objectives;

But the supply of these oils is likely to remain limited. Therefore, if the new legislative proposal were not accompanied by a sustainability scheme for biofuels, there would be a risk that it would supplement the pressure caused by growth in palm oil use and would make an additional contribution to the pressure on tropical forests and peatlands in South-East Asia.

For example, a pensioner friend of mine, a joiner by trade, asked me why, “instead of giving all this money to those countries to preserve their tropical forests”, we did not “make people buy fewer bedrooms and less furniture made from wood the production of which entails cutting down tropical forests?” I agree with him. In this way we might achieve more and spend less.