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Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation

A Greener Life

In 2021, the country produced 610 million tons of coal, half of which was exported, at a value of US$29.6 Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019.

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Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people

A Greener Life

The Ayoreo people live in the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where protected land has been drastically deforested in recent decades. The Bank of America, meanwhile, underwrote a US$285 million bond for Frigorifico Concepción in 2021. Now, another Indigenous group in South America faces a similar threat. million and US$4.5

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Thomas E. Lovejoy, III (1941-2021)

Academy of Natural Sciences

This vastly improved biologists’ understanding of the impacts of habitat fragmentation and helped spark global concern about deforestation in the Amazon. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Shellenberger Founder and President Environmental Progress 2569 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA 94708 February 25, 2021 Good morning Chairperson Scott, Ranking Member Thompson, and members of the committee. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Shellenberger Submitted by: Michael D.