21st Century Challenges

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Put your questions to a panel of leading international experts, discussing how best to conserve the world’s rainforests in the face of enormous challenges from palm oil, timber trade, green colonialism and tourism. 

Simon Counsell  - Director, Rainforest Trust
Senator Marina Silva  - former Brazilian Minister for the Environment
Warren Evans   - Director of Environment, World Bank

Professor Sir Gordon Conway (Chair) - Chief Scientific Advisor for Department for International Development (DFID)

• Rainforests produce 20% of the entire world’s oxygen and 30% of our planet’s fresh water
  
• Forests store 40% of all carbon in terrestrial life, plus a third of all carbon stored in the world’s soils
  
• How can governments, indigenous populations and organisations work together to conserve them?

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