白宫
华盛顿特区
2021年11月2日
拜登总统在“森林和土地使用行动”活动上的讲话
苏格兰会展中心（Scottish Event Campus）
苏格兰格拉斯哥（Glasgow）
格林尼治标准时间上午10时
 
总统：各位早上好。荣幸与大家相聚。我的伙伴领导人，我荣幸代表美国出席这个重要的讨论。
保护森林和其他重要的生态系统是让我们能够实现气候目标和我们共同具有的其他许多关键目标的不可缺少的一环，它们包括：保证水的清洁，维护生物多样性，支持乡村和原住民社区，以及减少疾病传播。
我们的森林也是大自然的碳捕捉机制，能够将二氧化碳循环到大气层外。我想向今天在座的刚果[民主]共和国总统和加蓬总统致意，他们对保护他们国家的森林作出了很大承诺。
如果我们大家共同努力，确保这些宝贵的资源在非洲和世界各地受到保护，森林有可能把全球的二氧化碳减少三分之一以上——三分之一以上。
因此，我们需要以对待经济脱碳一样的严肃态度对待这个问题。这是美国正在做的。
迄今，我们已经超越了2020年伯恩挑战（2020 Bonn Challenge）的目标，有2000多万公顷的森林土地正在得到恢复。
我在上任的第一周颁布行政命令，确立了到2030年至少对30%的所有美国土地和水域给予保护的目标。
我们实施了对全球面积最大的完存温带雨林——阿拉斯加的通加斯森林（Tongass Forest in Alaska）的保护。
今天，我将宣布一项新的保护全球森林计划，它将运用美国政府的各种手段——外交、金融和政策——制止森林消失，恢复我们重要的碳汇能力，改进土地管理。
通过这个计划，美国将帮助世界达到我们共同的目标，制止自然森林的消失和在2030年以前至少再使2亿公顷森林和其他生态系统得到恢复。
这是第一个此类计划，它采用全政府投入方式，就我国而言，将通过与国会协作，在到2030年的这些年里拿出多达90亿美元资金，保护和恢复我们的森林，并通过我们的合作伙伴调动亿万更多资金。
作为这一计划的内容之一，我们将努力确保让市场认识到自然碳汇的切实经济价值，动员政府、土地所有者和利益相关者将保护森林置于首要位置。
我们将使私人行业的投资流动与我们的气候——环保目标相吻合，包括减少造成砍伐森林的因素，创造可持续的供应链，发展更可持续的商品来源。
在进行每一步时，我们都将与受森林砍伐影响最大的人和在可持续土地管理方面最有经验的人建立合作——包括地方社区，原住民群体，地方政府，公民社会——以确保我们的方法有效，而且注重易受影响人口的需要。
保护森立和其他生态环境，能够并且应该是我们大家都有的净零排放战略的一部分，为实现我们的雄心气候目标发挥重要作用。
美国将以我们在国内的榜样做表率，并且支持其他有森林的国家和发展中国家制定和采取有气魄的行动，保护和恢复这些碳汇功能。
我相信我们能够做到。我们唯一需要的是拿出意志，做我们知道应该做的，我们知道需要做的和我们知道我们力所能及的。
那么，听起来简单，我认为就是这么简单。让我们开始工作。我们能够做到。
谢谢各位。（掌声）
格林尼治时间上午10时04分
欲查看原稿内容:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/02/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-action-on-forests-and-land-use-event/

Remarks by President Biden at the “Action on Forests and Land-Use” Event
NOVEMBER 02, 2021•SPEECHES AND REMARKS
Scottish Event Campus
Glasgow, Scotland
10:00 A.M. GMT
THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everyone.  It’s an honor to be with you.  My fellow leaders, I’m honored to represent the United States in this important discussion.
Conserving our forests and other critical ecosystems is indispensable — an indispensable piece of keeping our climate goals within reach as well as many other key priorities that we have together: ensuring clean water, maintaining biodiversity, supporting rural and Indigenous communities, and reducing the risk of the spread of disease.
Our forests are also nature’s carbon capture, cycling CO2 out of our atmosphere.  And I want to recognize the presidents of the [Democratic] Republic of the Congo and Gabon, who are here today, for their considerable commitment to conserve — to conserve their forests.
If we all work together to make sure these precious resources are conserved in Africa and around the world, forests have the potential to reduce — reduce carbon globally by more than one third — by more than one third.
So, we need to approach this issue with the same seriousness of purpose as decarbonizing our economies.  That’s what we’re doing in the United States.
We’ve already exceeded the 2020 Bonn Challenge goal of more than 20 million hectares of forest land under restoration thus far.
During my first week in office, I issued an executive order that set the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of all U.S. lands and waters by the year 2030.
We have put a — in place protections for the Tongass Forest in Alaska, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest.
And today, I’m announcing a new plan to conserve global forests, which will bring together a full range of U.S. government tools — diplomatic, financial, and policy — to halt forest loss, restore our critical carbon sinks, and improve land management.
Through this plan, the United States will help the world deliver on our shared goal of halting natural forest loss and restoring at least an additional 200 million hectares of forests and other ecosystems by the year 2030.
This is a plan that is the first of its kind, taking a whole-of-government approach and working, in our case, with Congress to deploy up to $9 billion in U.S. funding through 2030 to conserve and restore our forests and mobilize billions more from our partners.
As part of this, we’re going to work to ensure markets recognize the true economic value of natural carbon sinks and motivate governments, land owners, and stakeholders to prioritize conservation.
We’ll work to align the private sector investment flows in our climate conserv- — and conservation goals, including reducing the drivers of deforestation, creating sustainable supply chains, pursuing more sustainable commodity sourcing.
At every step, we’ll work in partnership with the people most impacted by deforestation and most experienced in sustainable land management — local communities, Indigenous peoples, local governments, civil societies — to make sure our approaches are effective and focused on the needs of vulnerable populations.
Preserving forests and other ecosystems can and should play an important role in meeting our ambitious climate goals as part of the net-zero emissions strategy we all have.
And the United States is going to lead by our example at home and support other forested nations and developing countries in setting and achieving ambitious action to conserve and restore these carbon sinks.
I’m confident we can do this.  All we need to do is summon the will to do what we know is right and we know is necessary and we know is within our capacity.
So, as simple as it sounds, I think it is this simple.  Let’s get to work.  We can do this.  And it will have a generational impact.
Thank you.  (Applause.)
10:04 A.M. GMT