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VIDEO – At Climate Talks, NWF Presses for Reduced Deforestation in Brazil
In the past decade, deforestation has accounted for over 50 percent of Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions and it’s the world’s third largest emitter of carbon. Agriculture for things like cattle ranching and increasingly palm oil production have been the drivers… Read more >
Brazil’s Environment Head Says Amazon Deforestation Is Slowing
The CO2 emissions caused by deforestation make Brazil a top-tier global warming polluter that has been criticized for not moving more quickly to save its vast but diminishing Amazon basin forests. Intact forests absorb greenhouse gases but become emitters when they… Read more >
