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Without carefully managing tropical forests – 90% of which grow in developing nations that have pressure to clear the land for other economic purposes – we cannot meet our global targets for reduced carbon emissions.
Helping soybean farmers, palm-oil planters, and cattle ranchers from Brazil to Southeast Asia to use land more productively, thereby reducing pressure on tropical forests, must be an integral part of the solution.
Although it is impossible to attribute any particular storm to climate change, we know that when tropical storms form over warmer water, they strengthen and become more intense.
Scientists predict that at least a third and as much as two-thirds of the world’s species could be on their way to extinction by the end of this century, mostly because people are destroying tropical forests and other habitats, over-fishing the oceans, and changing the global climate.
Similarly, we hear concern that tropical forests are being stripped.
For example, with the right investments, tropical countries could significantly reduce emissions from the forestry sector while also creating green jobs.
The risk is greatest in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where population growth and food demand will hit tropical woodlands particularly hard.
In November 1970, tropical cyclone “Bhola” struck East Pakistan, killing between 300,000 and 500,000 people.
By maintaining their rainforests, tropical countries provide an invaluable global service, one for which they have so far failed to be compensated.
At current carbon prices, the value of carbon sequestration by tropical rainforests likely equals or exceeds the current level of international aid being provided to developing countries.
There are some 2.7 billion people in over 60 developing countries that are home to the world’s tropical forests.
Wood from a single tropical cedar tree can sell for $9,000 in the United States.
Tropical diseases remain killers to this day.
A devastating economic blow occurred in the mid-nineteenth century, when Europe learned to produce sugar from a temperate-zone crop, beets, rather than from tropical sugar cane.
On the economic front, Haiti can become a profitable exporter of tropical crops such as groundnuts, mangos, cut flowers, string beans, and bamboo – a source of progress among Haiti’s Caribbean-basin neighbors.
For example, tropical rainforests play a crucial function in maintaining stable weather and rainfall, acting as a “pump” that helps moisture travel between different regions.
And the issue is not confined to tropical cities like Mumbai.
For instance, changes are taking place in precipitation patterns, with a trend toward higher precipitation levels in the world’s upper latitudes and lower precipitation in some sub-tropical and tropical regions, as well as in the Mediterranean area.
Tropical diseases will spread, killing still more people.
In order to achieve the maximum carbon capture, estimated at 1.6 gigatons, 1,380,000 square kilometers of existing forests must be maintained, 2,170,000 km2 of tropical forests must be allowed to regenerate, and 3,450,000 km2 of land must be allotted for plantations and agroforestry.
It depends on warm temperatures, and thus is largely a tropical malady.
Further, it proposed the establishment of an LDC patent pool for neglected tropical diseases and donated to it 13,500 compounds for malaria vaccines.
Likewise, in many parts of the world, tropical rainforest is being cleared for pasture land and food crops.
Perhaps Bush had hoped that the consequences of global warming would be felt long after he left office – and would be felt more by poor, low-lying, tropical countries like Bangladesh than by a rich country astride the temperate zones.
Indeed, because Ebola presents symptoms similar to malaria, dengue fever, and other endemic tropical diseases, medical workers may not take adequate precautions – or, worse, may send patients home in a highly contagious phase.
There are, in essence, only three groups of poor countries: those in tropical, sub-tropical, or desert climates; those that are landlocked in the center of poor regions, and therefore cut off from world trade; and those that are escaping from the nightmare of communism.
The tropical countries have several severe disadvantages.
These include: susceptibility to infectious diseases such as malaria, transmitted by insects that thrive in the tropics; poor soils; vulnerability to extreme natural disasters such as tropical cyclones (of the kind that killed around 11,000 people in Central America); and low agricultural productivity due to the effects of excessive heat on plant growth, and other causes.
Scientists are still in the process of unraveling the biological mysteries that underlie the poor tropical productivity.
Instead of lecturing so much about governance, the rich countries should do much more to promote a serious scientific understanding of the tropical environment -including infectious diseases, energy use, agricultural productivity, climate change, and natural disasters - as the real source of help for the 87 percent of humanity living in the poor countries of the world.
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