Rainforests keep the planet healthy, absorbing and storing billions of tons of carbon.

Tropical rainforests are cost-effective climate solutions working for our benefit today. Yet they face the greatest risks of deforestation: Nearly all forest loss (95%) occurs in the tropics.

Deforestation accelerates climate change and amplifies its impacts in several ways:

• • Land-clearing, and fires release carbon stored in trees, leaves, and soils, and transfer it to the atmosphere.
  • Rainforest loss destabilizes temperatures and weather across the planet.
  • Deforestation makes nature and people less resilient to hotter temperatures, storms, droughts, floods, and rising seas.