Let’s save forests to fight climate change

Last week, lawmakers placed a much-needed eye toward an often-overlooked climate solution: forest conservation. The House Foreign Affairs Committeeheld a bipartisan hearing on the topic, where Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) noted, “our global effort to combat the climate crisis depends on” protecting forest ecosystems.   Hoyer is right. The destruction of forests (and other ecosystems) — together with unsustainable…