Prince's Rainforests Project

EDM number 147 in 2009-10, proposed by David Maclean on 19/11/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Environmental protection.

That this House supports the work of The Prince's Rainforests Project, which aims to halt the current rate of forest destruction of 32,000 hectares per week; recognises that rainforests absorb 10 per cent. of all the carbon dioxide produced in the world, but that burning them produces 17 per cent. of the earth's carbon dioxide, more than all the transport systems in the world put together; believes that climate change cannot be stopped unless saving the rainforests is put at the heart of the policy; acknowledges that over one third of the rainforests have already been destroyed, and that large-scale further destruction could prevent them from producing the essential oxygen and moisture the planet needs; further recognises that one per cent. of currently-assessed rainforest plant species give us 25 per cent. of essential life-saving drugs and that it is folly to continue the destruction of habitat where 99 per cent. of the species of all types have not been measured or assessed; understands that rainforests are on the agenda for the Copenhagen Summit; and calls on the Government to press for an urgent agreement on a funding mechanism which makes the rainforests worth more alive than dead.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.