One more reason time is not on our side to meet #ParisAgreement: it takes time for decisions to become policies, gain legitimacy, and translate to changes on the ground (10-25y), shows Mark Rounsevell w/ UK farm examples of slow crop network diffusion. 9/n
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Takeaway #3: Anti-deforestation policies can have limited or counter-productive effects because of its incompatibility with existing policies and ECONOMIC DRIVERS, often producing only temporary slowing of deforestation. https://t.co/NpjkNx3QSi degradation
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Well... this is awesome and scary. Read it if you're into that sort thing....
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In short, this article shows that politics, and policies, are spectacularly failing to achieve #climate targets also because they are not strong enough to counterbalance the underlying profit-driven economy and the power of corporations. https://t.co/NpjkN