Puntas arenas, Chilean Patagonia. Photo source: ©© Julie Laurent
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An alliance of about 30 countries including the United States and a coalition of multinational companies set a goal of halving losses of forests by 2020 and halting losses by 2030. If fully implemented, this would stave off between 4.5 billion and 8.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, equivalent to emissions by all the world’s one billion cars…
Governments, Business, Civil Society and Indigenous Leaders Pledge to End Loss of Forests, UNEP News Centre
An innovative public-private partnership of multinationals, governments, civil society and indigenous peoples today pledged to cut the loss of forests in half by 2020 and end it a decade later in 2030 – a move that will eliminate the emission of between 4.5 and 8.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year. That is equivalent to removing the carbon emissions produced by the one billion cars that are currently on the world’s roads…
Website Gives Real-Time Snapshot of Deforestation, IPS News
Countries pledge to end forest loss but not Brazil, USA Today
A Giant Brought to Its Knees: The Atlantic Coastal Forest (Uploaded 06-09-2011)
The Atlantic Forest is a shadow of its former self. Originally covering more than 386,000 sq. miles along Brazil’s coast, extending into eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. Today less than 7% of that cover remains, in the wake of centuries of forest clearing for agriculture and urban development, and fragmented by centuries of unsustainable use and logging.
