193. Beyond their key role in climate change miti- gation of land-based emissions, forests harbor a sig- nificant fraction of the world’s biodiversity wealth and are responsible for the provision of key ecosys- tem services, including functioning as carbon sinks and storehouses, buffering against soil degradation and desertification, and sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of rural people everywhere.
193. Beyond their key role in climate change miti- gation of land-based emissions, forests harbor a sig- nificant fraction of the world’s biodiversity wealth and are responsible for the provision of key ecosys- tem services, including functioning as carbon sinks and storehouses, buffering against soil degradation and desertification, and sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of rural people everywhere.