- CI’s ultimate goal is the achievement of zero deforestation
across the globe by 2030. - Intact forests and other natural
ecosystems reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change
impacts like floods and droughts. - A 1-meter (3.3-foot) sea
level rise could flood 17 percent of Bangladesh, one of the
world's poorest countries, displacing tens of millions of people
and reducing the country's rice-farming land by 50 percent. -
Reducing global deforestation by 50 percent by 2020 offers
nearly one-third of the cost-effective, technologically
available options to meet 450 parts per million stabilization
targets. - Higher temperatures are expected to expand the range
of certain dangerous "vector-borne" diseases, including malaria.
- Reducing carbon concentrations to 350 parts per million would
enable us to avert tipping points in climate change such as
ocean acidification and the melting of permafrost and arctic
ice. - Since 2007, CI has delivered climate and forest-carbon
related trainings and workshops in more th