{"id":131974,"date":"2025-11-10T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131974\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:34:10","slug":"the-world-has-a-decade-to-save-the-biggest-tropical-carbon-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131974\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Has a Decade to Save the Biggest Tropical Carbon Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">That\u2019s the conclusion of the first comprehensive scientific report about the state of the environment in a region that stretches from Cross River in Nigeria to the Rift Valley in East Africa. An executive summary of the 800-page report, authored by 177 experts from across the basin and beyond, was released Monday for <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/cop30\" title=\"Link to Website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the COP 30 climate summit<\/a> in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[255,3810,1347,2885,10394,246,76948,18447,61,2568,60,18479,82,76947],"class_list":{"0":"post-131974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-agriculture","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-deforestation","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-gabon","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-india","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-population-growth","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-the-democratic-republic-of-congo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}