Countries focus on land-based carbon removal instead of protecting forests: COP30 report finds

Land Gap 2025 report released at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil finds that countries are failing to do the simplest, most effective thing to cut emissions — protect the forests they already have. Instead, the report finds, they are focusing on land-based carbon removal plans.

Shuchita Jha

Land Gap 2025 report released at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil finds that countries are failing to do the simplest, most effective thing to cut emissions — protect the forests they already have. Instead, the report finds, they are focusing on land-based carbon removal plans.

Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

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Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

Manon Verchot

Manon is a multimedia journalist and co-founder of InOldNews, the organization that runs Neighbird. She formerly headed video at Mongabay, Hindustan Times and Mint.

Sanshey Biswas

Starting his career as a print journalist in '14 at a weekly newspaper in India, he quickly gravitated to working on the digital side. He is a self-taught multimedia journalist who loves to learn from and with his colleagues spread across the globes.