URGENT: The World's Lungs Are On Fire
The mists of the Amazon travel across oceans to fall as rain on America's plains. Its lush forests pump out a fifth of the world's oxygen, and store hundreds of years of carbon. From a world away, we desperately rely on everything the Amazon provides.
But right now, a record-breaking number of fires are burning across the Amazon. The forests' skies are black with smoke and ash. The people — and wildlife — who call the Amazon home are running for their lives, and suffering the devastating health effects of smoke inhalation.
Right now, the California Air Resources Board is considering creating a program that will protect tropical forests. The entire world is counting on them taking action. Make sure they hear from you before it's too late!
Adopt the California Tropical Forest Standard (tfs2018)
Dear California Air Resources Board,
I strongly support California using the state's global influence to protect tropical forests through endorsement of the Tropical Forest Standard.
Cutting and burning tropical forests like the Amazon threatens their unique animals, plants and millions of people who depend on them to survive. Deforestation also contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, and ships in the world every single year - stopping it is a critical step to avoiding dangerous global warming and meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
California's proposed Standard for rainforest credits would create incentives to protect tropical forests -- whole forest landscapes, across entire states or nations. It would also require that programs producing rainforest credits consult and collaborate with indigenous and other traditional communities who use and safeguard forests. And that their communities are partners who benefit from these programs. The money generated from the sale of the credits directly benefits the programs that are protecting forests, reducing emissions and creating sustainable indigenous livelihoods that are in harmony with and strengthen their cultural traditions.
The world must address the loss of tropical forests to stop climate change. Now is the time for California to directly promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the cutting and burning of tropical forests. We can't save the climate without tropical forests. The California Air Resources Board should endorse the California Tropical Forest Standard.
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