A landmark new study has found that, in the last decade, the African continent has started emitting more carbon than it stores.
Sally Archibald
Money is currently pouring into Africa and the Global South to achieve climate mitigation via ecosystem based approaches.
A recent commentary by Renato A. F. de Lima and 25 colleagues from a range of countries presents a call for recognising the massive intellectual, financial, and personal investment made by people collecting field ecological data globally. They argue that the international push to make forest plot data “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) has made the situation more UNFAIR, by degrading the rights and opportunities of those who invested in collecting the data.