Canada is looking to its Indigenous communities to help manage its boreal forests, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem and one if its biggest stores of carbon.
Covid-19 and climate change dominated the start of the General Assembly gathering. The U.N. secretary general warned that an increasingly divided world was “on the edge of an abyss.”
The president’s trip is expected to include a stop in Queens, where several people were killed in basement apartments that were flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
