Amazon deforestation 'record low'
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According to the latest annual figures, just over 7,000 sq km was destroyed between July 2008 and August 2009.
The drop is welcome news for the government in advance of the Copenhagen summit on climate change.
But Greenpeace says there is still too much deforestation and the government's targets are not ambitious enough."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8358094.stm
Is this just pulling the wool over our eyes?
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thedirtman
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The situation is becoming more critical in Indonesia where the government has high concern but less control over deforestation. Indonesia is second to Brazil in deforestation acres, but at a much higher rate.
JAKARTA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian environment minister Gusti Mohammad Hatta said that the hopes to reach a historic deal in the upcoming United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference(UNFCCC) scheduled for December remain slim as each country would remain stubborn on its stance, the Jakarta Post reported here on Monday.
"It seems to me that Copenhagen will not be a success. Each party is maintaining its position very strongly," the minister said.
His statement comes as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is trying hard to push world leaders to reach a consensus on climate change.
Indonesia has been dubbed as a climate change supporter thanks to the president's promise to voluntarily cut emissions by 26 percent by 2020 using the state budget.
The president also pledged that Indonesia could slash its emissions by up to 41 percent from the energy and forestry sectors should rich nations provide financial assistance.
Indonesia is the first developing nation that has officially declared its commitment to cut emissions amid slow progress made by developed countries.
Previously, presidential palace spokesperson Dino Patti Djalal said that the president had asked environment, transportation, agriculture ministers to provide papers on climate change for negotiations in the Copenhagen climate change summit set for December 8 to 17.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/02/content_12372011.htm
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thedirtman
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jimmydaperv
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Deforestation is down. That is not good enough. We need forestation.
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Rickharmon25
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That is good news! How much has been destroyed from beginning on percentage? Any way of knowing that? Good report.
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Rickharmon25:
"Brazil has historically had the distinction of serving as the world's leader of deforestation. According to Walker, during the last three decades, an annual average of 6,500 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon — an area that is greater than the size of Connecticut — has been deforested. "
http://www.livescience.com/environment/090109-bts-deforestation.html
Shocking! - 2 years ago
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Rickharmon25:
How much of the Amazon rainforest has been lost and how quickly?
"Since the 1970s, when satellite mapping of the region became available, around a fifth of the rainforest has been destroyed, an area the size of California. Greenpeace US estimates that, between 2007 and 2008, another 3m acres (1.2m hectares) of the Brazilian Amazon have been destroyed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/31/cattle-trade-brazil-greenpeace... - 2 years ago
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