Position paper on The protection of Forest Depletion

... 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

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