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Endorsed by over 200 forest leaders, scientists, conservationists, NGOs and business leaders, this Declaration calls on world governments to take urgent action on deforestation in the tropics and sub-tropics, which causes 18-25% of global carbon emissions, more than the world's entire transport industry.

The Declaration calls for a series of carbon policies and market reforms to incentivise the protection of tropical forests and safeguard the vital services they provide including capture and storage of carbon dioxide.

Forests have been absorbing and storing carbon for millennia and contain 60% of the carbon stored on Earth. Deforestation releases this carbon into the atmosphere contributing significantly to global warming.

Action now to stop deforestation and to stimulate forest restoration and the planting of new forests will help substantially in the fight against climate change.

Deforestation also threatens critical natural habitats across the world particularly in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Tropical forests are home to more than 50 percent of the world's remaining species and are critical to the survival of over a billion of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. New market-driven incentives are required now if we are to avoid irrevocable damage to our environment and to ourselves.

Action on Forests Now is a win against climate change, a win for vital forest ecosystems, and a win for the whole of humanity. By supporting the declaration in Promises Section, you are supporting for a call on Governments to:

- Ensure that carbon credits for reduced emissions from deforestation and the protection of standing forests are included in all national and international carbon markets, especially those created by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

- Simplify and expand effective carbon market rules, including the Clean Development Mechanism, to encourage reforestation, afforestation and sustainable forest management.

- Include tropical forest and land use carbon credits in the European Union Trading Scheme, while maintaining strong incentives to reduce industrial emissions.

- Encourage early action and new market mechanisms that recognise the value of carbon stocks and forest ecosystem services, and support appropriate voluntary carbon market standards.

- Provide assistance for developing nations to build capacity to fully participate in the carbon markets, and to evaluate the ecosystem services their forests provide.

- Incentivise the regeneration and sustainable use of degraded land and ecosystems, and remove incentives that encourage forest destruction.

- Forests provide one of the largest opportunities for cost effective and immediate action against climate change and demand urgent attention.

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