Well - ONE Good Thing Is Going To Have Been Achieved at COP26. (Nice to be able to be positive, for once.)

Cop26: world leaders agree deal to end deforestation.

Historic declaration at Cop26 commits countries to ending major cause of CO2 emissions

Boris Johnson will unveil the agreement on deforestation at an event attended by the US president, Joe Biden. Photograph: Michael Mayhew/Sportsphoto/Allstar

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Patrick Greenfield, Jonathan Watts, Phoebe Weston and Fiona Harvey

Mon 1 Nov 2021  Guardian.

World leaders have agreed a deal that aims to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to tackle human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro and Joe Biden are among the leaders who will commit to the declaration at Cop26 in Glasgow on Tuesday to protect vast areas, ranging from the eastern Siberian taiga to the Congo basin, home to the world’s second largest rainforest.

Land-clearing by humans accounts for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, largely deriving from the destruction of the world’s forests for agricultural products such as palm oil, soy and beef.

By signing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, presidents and prime ministers from major producers and consumers of deforestation-linked products will commit to protect forest ecosystems.