Thread by @AgathoniaMedia

#Deforestation: "#Consumption patterns of G7 countries drive an average loss of 3.9 #trees per person per year. Some of the hotspots of deforestation embodied in international trade are also #biodiversity hotspots"

nature.com/articles/s4155… #BiodiversityCrisis #WorldSystem

"#USA, #Japan, #Germany, #France, the #UK, and Italy, and several developing countries, such as #China and #India, have obtained net domestic forest gains. The net forest gains made in these countries were partially offset by importing embodied deforestation from elsewhere"

"Our analysis addresses two main questions: (i) Which #deforestation hotspots are driven by which consumer countries? and (ii) Which forest ecosystems, tropical rain forests or other forest types are the top targets of global supply chains?"

"Figure 2 shows the 15-year cumulative spatial #deforestation footprints of the #USA, #China, #Japan, #Germany (the world’s four largest economies), #Singapore (an Asian Tiger) and #Brazil (with the largest tropical rainforest area)."

".... However, these differences do not reflect the #responsibility of each country’s citizens regarding global #biodiversity threats and climate change because different tree types may have different environmental and ecological roles."

"Although the #USA, #Japan, #Germany, #Singapore, #China and #Russia increased their net forest imports from all biomes in 2015, compared with 2001, the imports of tropical #deforestation-related commodities increased significantly (Fig. 4)."

"Five G7 countries, that is, #Japan, #Germany, #France, the #UK, and #Italy, have 91–99% of their #deforestation footprints in foreign countries, of which 46–57% was tropical #deforestation in 2015."

"Understanding global deforestation footprints is essential to create better regulatory policies and science-based interventions for protecting forests in various hotspots." #planning