Deforestation in Colombia Down 70 Percent So Far This Year
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is down 70 percent, year on year, through the first nine months of 2023, the government estimates. Read more on E360 →
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Amazon Deforestation is Down. Here’s Why.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
For several years, headlines about Amazon deforestation have all been bad. Good news in Brazil where deforestation in the Amazon declined 66.1 For the first eight months of the year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than the same period in 2022. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.
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Amazon Deforestation Down 40 Percent So Far This Year
Yale E360
MAY 12, 2023
So far this year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 40 percent from the same period in 2022, according to government data. The drop comes as a win for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has promised to curb forest less. Read more on E360 →
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UK Triples International Climate Investments, Boosts Deforestation Programs at COP27
Environment + Energy Leader
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The post UK Triples International Climate Investments, Boosts Deforestation Programs at COP27 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Committing to international climate funding, especially benefiting the host continent, is a priority heading into the conference.
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Indonesia, Malaysia Have Cut Deforestation in Half in Last Half-Decade
Yale E360
JUNE 28, 2023
Indonesia and Malaysia have cut deforestation by more than half in recent years, a new report shows. Read more on E360 →
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ICE Plans Traceability Services to Help Cocoa, Coffee Industry Meet Deforestation Regulations
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 14, 2023
The new tracking service will help the cocoa and coffee industry comply with the EU’s recently released rules on regulating deforestation.
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Amazon Sees Record High Deforestation in First Half of 2022
Yale E360
JULY 11, 2022
In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.
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Deforestation increased in 2022 despite pledges to save forests
New Scientist
OCTOBER 23, 2023
But some countries have reduced deforestation rates, and actions such as trade reform could yet turn the tide The world is going “in the wrong direction” on forests, say campaigners.
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Deforestation Declining, but Too Slow to Meet Climate Goals
Yale E360
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Global deforestation dropped by just 6.3 percent in 2021, leaving the world off track from its goals of ending forest loss by 2030 and limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report. Read more on E360 ?.
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As Deforestation Grows in the Brazilian Savanna, Government Ends Monitoring
Yale E360
JANUARY 7, 2022
Last year, deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, one of the largest savannas in the world, reached its highest level since 2015, according to newly released data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
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Indigenous Peruvians Use Smartphones to Monitor Deforestation
Yale E360
JULY 14, 2021
Members of nearly 40 Indigenous communities in Peru's northern border region of Loreto have been using smartphone mapping apps to track deforestation in the Amazon, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.
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How Mounting Rubber Demand Is Driving Loss of Tropical Forests
Yale E360
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows. Most of the rubber goes to produce tires, more than 2 billion a year, and experts warn the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use. Read more on E360 →
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Reducing Deforestation and Methane Emissions Take Center Stage at Glasgow
Yale E360
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Tuesday's highlight at the Glasgow climate summit was the Declaration on Forest and Land Use, under which more than 100 leaders — from Russia to Brazil to Canada to Indonesia — pledged to end deforestation and land degradation by 2030. It brought a sense of déjà vu. Read more on E360 ?.
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Governors Launch Action Plan to Reduce Deforestation and Improve Lives in Forested Regions
Legal Planet
MARCH 17, 2022
For more than a decade of leadership and innovation, member states and provinces of the Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force have been developing strategies, programs, investment plans, and new legal structures to address tropical deforestation, embark on a low-emissions development path, and benefit their populations and the climate.
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Bolivia's surging deforestation alarms environmentalists
New Scientist
JULY 17, 2023
Bolivia accounts for 9 per cent of all primary forest lost across the globe, and conservationists fear deforestation will only increase due to the government’s desire to expand agricultural production
Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation
A Greener Life
JANUARY 20, 2023
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. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. The main destination for this coal was China, with 99.2
Peace has led to more deforestation in Colombia
Frontiers
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
In the tropics, when conflict affected countries transition to peace, deforestation often increases. The consequences of peace and armed conflict for deforestation depend on the location, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Coca farms and cattle ranching boost deforestation.
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Activist Group ‘Names and Shames’ Cargill and Its Heirs to Keep Deforestation Promises
Inside Climate News
JUNE 14, 2023
Stand.earth alleges that Cargill, the nation’s largest privately-held company and the world’s largest agribusiness company , has failed to keep pledges on eliminating deforestation from its supply chains.
Carbon-offsetting schemes may not actually prevent deforestation
New Scientist
AUGUST 24, 2023
An analysis of 18 large carbon-offsetting projects has found that most don't significantly reduce deforestation compared with areas not covered by the schemes
Amazon deforestation linked to long distance climate warming
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometers away to get warmer, suggests a new study. Read the full story from the University of Leeds. The research suggests that tropical forests play a critical role in cooling the land surface — and that effect can play out over considerable distances.
Deforestation Is Killing Workers in Tropical Countries
Cool Green Science
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
New science estimates that heat increases caused by deforestation are killing more than 100 people per year in Berau, Indonesia. The post Deforestation Is Killing Workers in Tropical Countries appeared first on Cool Green Science.
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French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation Mongabay PaulaR Fri, 11/17/2023 - 17:58 Thursday, November 16, 2023 Read more Dimitri Selibas A coalition of NGOs has filed a criminal complaint against several French banks for allegedly financing meat companies driving deforestation in Brazil.
Amazon deforestation may shrink Himalayan snow and Antarctic ice
New Scientist
JANUARY 5, 2023
Changes in temperature and precipitation due to rapid deforestation in the Amazon rainforest could have effects as far away as the Tibetan plateau and Antarctica
Amazon deforestation still high despite Brazil's COP26 pledge
Inhabitant
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Last week at COP26 in Glasgow, 100 countries, including Brazil, pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030. In fact, the latest numbers are the second most appalling since scientists began measuring deforestation. However, recent figures for October show that Brazil is nowhere near protecting the Amazon rainforest.
Analysis: Energy needs drive deforestation in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The rate of deforestation has since slowed, but it is still of major concern. Timber smuggling is another major cause of deforestation in the region. Khan says this is partly due to deforestation, adding: “This is a significant increase, and if this trend continues until the end of 2100, there is a fear of a further 3C increase.
A $1 Billion Investment in the ‘New Forest Economy’
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Second, it stands out because of who is issuing the demand – namely, leaders of states, provinces, and communities who are at the frontlines of the climate, biodiversity, and economic crises that compound current high levels of deforestation. This call was especially timely as it fell on Indigenous Peoples’ Day for COP28.
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In Peru, an Indigenous Group Fights to Protect Land from Drug Traffickers and Deforestation
Yale E360
MARCH 11, 2021
The Santa Martha territory of Peru is experiencing unprecedented deforestation as drug traffickers and land grabbers encroach. Owned by the Indigenous Cacataibo community, a majority of this 14,485-hectare territory had been officially preserved as forestland.
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Annual Amazon deforestation rate hits highest levels in a decade
Inhabitant
AUGUST 23, 2021
A new report by Brazilian research institute Imazon shows that the Amazon forest has experienced the highest level of annual deforestation in a decade. Despite global calls for action, poor policies championed by President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil have contributed to increased deforestation.
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COP26: Deal reached to aim to end deforestation by 2030?
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
World leaders on Monday last week hailed a major breakthrough when, on the first official day of COP26 , a deal was agreed to stop deforestation by 2030. trillion of global assets – including Aviva, Schroders and Axa – will also commit to eliminating investment in activities linked to deforestation. Enabling deforestation.
Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop Mongabay PaulaR Mon, 11/20/2023 - 15:18 Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Read more Hans Nicholas Jong A new Greenpeace report alleges that pulp and paper giant APP continues to clear forests and develop peatlands 10 years after adopting its landmark 2013 pledge to stop destroying natural (..)
Deforestation is reducing rainfall all over the tropics
New Scientist
MARCH 1, 2023
Satellite data shows rainfall in tropical regions across the globe has declined in deforested areas in line with what climate models have been predicting
Amazon deforestation threatens harpy eagles
Inhabitant
JULY 1, 2021
The harpy eagle, one of the world's largest eagles, has almost "zero" chances of surviving if Amazon deforestation continues.
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110 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030
Inhabitant
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
More than 100 leaders from around the world pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030, in what's being lauded as the first big achievement of COP26. Countries are backing up their promise with more than $19 billion in public and private funds.
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Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people
A Greener Life
APRIL 9, 2023
The Ayoreo people live in the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where protected land has been drastically deforested in recent decades. These banks have voluntary pledges, most of them have policies to combat deforestation and extensive screening processes,” Hammans said. However, it doesn’t include finance,” Hammans said.
Amazon deforestation in April was the worst in modern records
New Scientist
MAY 10, 2022
The area cleared in April almost doubled, from 579 square kilometres in April last year to 1012 square kilometres, despite a pledge to halt deforestation
Climate change: new rules for companies to stop EU-driven deforestation globally
Environmental News Bits
JULY 28, 2022
To fight climate change and biodiversity loss globally, Environment MEPs want only deforestation-free products to be allowed on the EU market.
The European Union's new plan to curb deforestation is deeply flawed
New Scientist
JULY 4, 2023
Sustainability researchers have serious doubts about whether the EU’s new regulation will succeed in stopping deforestation
Swapping fifth of meat for microbial protein could halve deforestation
New Scientist
MAY 4, 2022
Even a modest shift from ruminant meat to microbial proteins could cut deforestation and carbon emissions 56 per cent by 2050
Jaguars face major threat from Amazon deforestation and fires
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Prospects for South America's biggest wild cat are likely to get worse in the short term unless the Brazilian government strengthens protections against deforestation for timber and cattle farming
Indigenous Amazon Communities Fight Deforestation with New Early Alert Tool
Scientific American
AUGUST 9, 2021
A pilot program reveals that deforestation declined when Peruvian Indigenous communities use an early-alert-system app to detect forest loss. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Colombia's peace treaty accidentally sparks increase in deforestation
New Scientist
AUGUST 16, 2021
The end of Colombia's civil war in 2016 unwittingly caused an increase in deforestation across the country as Marxist guerrillas no longer protect the land
California governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Gavin Newsom on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have required businesses selling certain products to the state to prove they’re not contributing to tropical deforestation. California Gov.
The Stream, July 1, 2021: Brazil Bans Outdoor Fires To Curb Deforestation In Amazon
Circle of Blue
JULY 1, 2021
Reuters reports that the move comes ahead of the annual burning season in the Amazon rainforest in an attempt to cut down on deforestation. The post The Stream, July 1, 2021: Brazil Bans Outdoor Fires To Curb Deforestation In Amazon appeared first on Circle of Blue. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. 8800 RESIDENTS.
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The Not-So-Good News About Carbon Offsets
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In case you missed it: there’s some good news about Amazon deforestation continuing to plunge. Jason Gray and I spoke recently about why tropical deforestation is down in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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