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National plans submitted ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP16 in Columbia should prioritize action over empty ambition, and must integrate with other nations’ plans to constructively work towards global aims.
Resilience in production forests can be achieved through natural ecological processes or repeated intensive interventions. We caution that ‘coerced’ resilience derived from intense and repeated human inputs may exacerbate biodiversity loss, narrow the range of ecosystem services provided and limit general resilience (that is, the capacity of production forests to recover from unforeseen disturbances).
Data repositories are the best way of sharing data both before and after publication, and Nature journals offer integrated data uploading at initial manuscript submission.
Recent media coverage gives the impression that the very idea of tackling climate change by slowing tropical deforestation is a scam — this is not true and the idea could harm forests.
Achieving inclusive and sustainable ocean economies, long-term climate resilience and effective biodiversity conservation requires urgent and strategic actions from local to global scales. We discuss fundamental changes that are needed to allow equitable policy across these three domains.
