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Every senses of your body will be over-excited, there is a TERRIFIC use of sound effects, that will render the tropical forest a living entity, intelligent, thinking, speaking.
The EU can play a leading role in promoting renewable energy cooperation, in part by transferring technology that is adapted to our tropical conditions, which would support CELAC countries’ efforts to reduce emissions and pollution, increase their resilience to climate change, and create jobs.
When world leaders meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year to craft a response to the challenges of global warming, they should put in place policies to protect tropical forests and the people who make them their home.
Unfortunately, few countries with tropical forests have submitted their plans, and not one of the Amazon countries has done so.
This part of China’s southwest, known for its abundant rainfall, mountains, underground rivers and caves, and tropical flora, has recently been gripped by a drought that many say is the worst since the Ming Dynasty.
Man-made global warming, caused mainly by fossil-fuel burning in rich countries, may well be a factor in the frequency and severity of major droughts, floods, and tropical storms.
Globalization also does little to eliminate the high incidence of disease linked to tropical climate.
The rich countries should help the poor countries to overcome the burdens of their geography by helping to fund a major fight against as AIDS, malaria, and other tropical infectious diseases.
Even the technology’s advocates concede that their computer models predict that it will have a strong negative impact on tropical and subtropical regions.
Yet, while the IPCC suggests that hurricanes’ maximum wind speeds will most likely increase, it also predicts that the total number of tropical hurricanes may fall, and that extra-tropical hurricanes will most likely decline in frequency, too.
Simply put, biodiversity is the web of life, including all organisms found in every habitat, from the fish of the deep oceans to the birds of the tropical rainforests and everything in between.
Maintaining tropical forests and other relatively natural ecosystems would preserve critical ecosystem services, especially soil fertility, pollination, pest control, and climate amelioration.
The Congo basin represents the second largest mass of tropical forest in the world, with 220 million hectares.
Hundreds of millions suffer from other neglected tropical diseases, including lymphatic filariasis and cholera.
What if there were ways to make tropical forests worth more alive than dead?
The idea is simple: with the right incentives, people, governments, and industries will preserve and restore tropical forests, rather than plow them under.
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.
No technology is as effective at storing carbon as tropical forests, and saving and restoring them offers one of the cheapest large-scale forms of emissions abatement or capture, while providing a host of other environmental and social benefits.
There is good scientific reason to believe that many tropical regions will experience vastly more damage from global warming than will temperate-zone countries like the US.
Consider climate change: few people realize that tropical forest destruction accounts for 20% of overall carbon emissions – more than the world’s cars, trucks, and airplanes combined.
Halting the cutting and burning of tropical forests, which are found almost exclusively in developing nations, is among the most readily achievable and effective possible steps to reduce carbon emissions.
Consider the fungus Cordyceps, which interferes with the behavior of ants in tropical rainforests in such a way as to make them climb high into the vegetation, and latch onto a leaf to die.
Over the last 40 years, the world’s population has almost doubled, to seven billion, but global exposure to tropical cyclones has almost tripled.
So a ship that is more than a hundred feet longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall has a tropical park and an ice skating rink (in addition to 23 swimming pools and 42 bars).
And, while much of the existing international health-care assistance is focused on sub-Saharan Africa, India, along with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, are just as devastated by neglected tropical diseases.
Again, the amount of scientific research to study tropical agricultural is a tiny fraction of the research expenditures to study "rich-country" agriculture in the temperate climate.
One estimate has shown that the combined agriculture research spending by state governments in California, New York, and Florida exceeds the total of the worldwide system of international agricultural research centers for tropical countries.
And for all of the developing world, a re-orientation of the aid effort to mobilize the scientific and technological knowledge needed to conquer unsolved problems of tropical health, agriculture, environment, energy use, and other areas that will not be overcome by economic reforms alone.
The proportion of the world’s GDP that is exposed annually to tropical cyclones increased from 3.6% in the 1970’s to 4.3% in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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