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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.
According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels).
billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center. In Brazil , the Chinese state-owned enterprise PowerChina is investing in the Pedras Altas plant in Rio Grande do Sul, which will have a capacity of 600 megawatts (MW). billion – was in coal.
United Nations General Debate – New York, September 24, 2019. During his United Nations (“UN”) Speech, Brazil President Bolsonaro made clear his government’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainabledevelopment to benefit Brazil and the world. . – President Bolsonaro at opening of the 74. solemn commitment.”
These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the SustainableDevelopment Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.
Moreover, as suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, renewable energy is much better than fossil fuels exploitation in terms of sustainabledevelopment (unlike someone in Moore’s movie suggested). Hydropower.
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10] As wealthy nations develop and farms become more productive, grasslands, forests, and wildlife are returning. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] In 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change warned that warming of 1.5 percent drop in pasture land since 2000. [13]
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