In this article, Mary Louise Malig, Campaigns Coordinator with the Global Forest Coalition, draws attention to how the Paris climate agreement fails to create an effective mechanism to ensure the drastically-needed reduction of carbon emissions. She highlights how Article 5 speaks about conserving forests specifically through result-based payments. Unfortunately, this article is not in sync with SDG 15. She argues that the real progress towards implementing the Paris agreement will be made in grassroots and Indigenous movements. Photo credit: Global Forest Coalition
