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Biofuel production likely increases atmospheric carbon, owing to the massive deforestation that it requires, while crop diversion increases food prices and contributes to global hunger.
Even with good intentions, these countries on their own are unlikely to ensure that the benefits of conserving the Amazon are realized, because private interests in deforestation – both legal and illegal – remain very strong.
The tragedy is that much of this deforestation has been entirely unnecessary from the standpoint of economic development.
Brazil has also developed a sophisticated system to track and record deforestation – though monitoring an area the size of Europe with scarce resources is by itself unlikely to lead to much compliance.
Where these programs have been implemented, little deforestation has occurred.
Deforestation must be reversed, not accelerated.
Simply put, by controlling deforestation we can significantly affect the carbon emissions that cause climate change.
They may, therefore, like to consider another option: discouraging tree-felling only in those areas that have high recent rates of deforestation.
Brazil has significantly reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.
We end deforestation and the destruction of arable land.
Species extinctions are occurring at a rate far greater than the natural cycle, owing largely to habitat destruction caused by human activities such as deforestation and land clearance.
One assessment estimates that about $40 billion a year will be needed to halve rates of deforestation and ensure sustainable management of forests in developing countries by the target date.
Brazil has reduced deforestation rates in the Amazon by roughly 80% since 2005, and Norway’s pledge of $1 billion is helping to achieve further reductions.
Brazil’s efforts have led to perhaps the biggest emission reduction of any country in the world – at a time when deforestation accounts for around 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
For example, Indonesia is seeking to establish a Green Corridor in Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo), where deforestation is not only fueling greenhouse-gas emissions, but also diminishing river flows, making it difficult in some months to transport goods by barge.
Countering deforestation is not without its challenges.
The second track is official recognition of the carbon storage of African lands and forests, as well as rewards for “avoided deforestation.”
Deforestation and desertification are rampant.
I have seen the effects of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and the loss of biodiversity.
Deforestation, growing population pressure, urbanization, soil erosion, over-fishing, and the impact of foreign domination over marketing, inputs, processing, and even farming also play a role.
Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.
After all, desertification and deforestation helped fuel the rise, two decades earlier, of the Maoist guerilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru.
Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods – the result of deforestation higher up.
Its remorseless expansion is contributing to climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and human-rights violations – all to satisfy Western societies’ unhealthy appetite for cheap meat.
Indeed, the factory model implies significant land-use change and deforestation, beginning with the production of feed.
The results were impressive: Brazil reduced the average rate of Amazon deforestation by over 60% over the last decade, absorbing about 3.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide, more than any other country.
In the two years since the Paris climate agreement was adopted, deforestation increased sharply in Indonesia and parts of the Amazon, where much of the world’s largest and most vital tropical forests stand.
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, tropical deforestation is responsible for three billion tons of additional atmospheric CO2 annually – more than the world’s entire transportation sector.
Deforestation for timber and energy precipitate erosion and reduce soil fertility.
We know that human activity is causing serious and complex changes in the global climate, mainly through the effects of burning fossil fuels like oil and gas, and the effects of deforestation.
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