Committee: United Nations Environmental Programme
Topic: Measure to combat forest depletion
Country: South Africa
Delegate: Quazi Nafiul Islam
School: The British School of Kuwait
Background information:
Most Nations are making a strong step towards industrialization and more economic success. This requires more and more natural resources to be invested into. One such material is wood, which is used as a raw material in many industries such as furniture, chemical and mechanical industry. This hunger for wood causes companies to resort to deforestation, as industry requires a constant supply of this material, the only way to do this is deforestation as it is the only means of a reliable and constant supply of wood. However, this causes tremendous damage to the environment as it destroys habitats, and also destroys a way of life for the locals which live in the region, who have learned to adapt to their environment, and because of this they too are losing their homes and their source of food (the forest is a habitat for many animals which the natives feed.) This is only the local point of view, the global point of view is that these trees take in the carbon di-oxide released by the burning of fossil fuels, because there is less CO2 being absorbed, there is that is being output by the industries, which adds to the green house effect, global warming.