Archive for the 'Deforestation' Category
Brazil Eyes Limits on Amazon Sugar Cane Growth
Posted on September 18, 2009 - Filed Under Deforestation, environment | Leave a Comment
The Brazilian government has presented new legislation intended to protect the Amazon from deforestation by banning any new planting of sugar cane, widely cultivated for ethanol production.
“Now we can say that our ethanol is 100 percent green,” said Environment Minister Carlos Minc.
The legislation would ban new clearing or planting of the crop in more than [...]
WWF Campaign: Deforestation and Lungs
Posted on April 8, 2009 - Filed Under Deforestation | Leave a Comment
World Wildlife fund (WWF) campaigns are always interesting.
There was paper Panda campaign where cute paper Pandas were put in parts of cities to create awareness about the dwindling number of the species. The message was loud and clear.
This time again the message is explicitly put. The ad shows depleting forest cover. [...]
UN Climate Talks: Save the Forests — But How?
Posted on April 1, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Deforestation, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
Deforestation, one of the main drivers of global warming, has barged its way to the heart of UN climate talks, which resumed in Bonn this week.
But which makes the better incentive for saving the carbon-absorbing tropical woodlands: market mechanisms or public funding?
This question has split nations, divided green groups and tossed in yet another factor [...]
Brazil Unveiled Deforestation Plan
Posted on September 29, 2008 - Filed Under Deforestation | Leave a Comment
It is one of the key commitments in a draft climate change plan, which stops short of setting specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The plan – setting out how Brazil will help prevent climate change, and how it will adapt to it – was promised nearly a year ago by President Lula.
But the environmental [...]
Amazon Deforestation On The Rise
Posted on August 31, 2008 - Filed Under Deforestation, enviromental Problem, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months — the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees, officials said.
Some 8,147 square kilometers (3,145 square miles) of forest were destroyed between August 2007 and August 2008 — a 69 percent [...]
Avoiding Deforestation Will Restrick Climate Change
Posted on July 25, 2008 - Filed Under Climate, Deforestation | 1 Comment
Wealthy nations could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by paying landowners in developing nations not to clear forested land for agriculture, finds a new study by a research team from Austria, Brazil and the United States.
The research attaches estimated dollar amounts to each metric ton of carbon that could be saved through avoided deforestation [...]
Deforestation in South American Region
Posted on May 4, 2008 - Filed Under Deforestation, Environmental Problem, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
South America still maintains a high percentage of the earth’s ecosystem that has not been disturbed by human activities. Unfortunately, the rate at which these are being degraded is alarming. The Amazon rainforest, spread across many countries in South America, is the world’s biggest tropical rainforest. It is home to one fifth of the planet’s [...]
Environment Group Greenpeace Welcomed Move To Save Indonesia’s Forests
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Deforestation, environment | Leave a Comment
Environment group Greenpeace on Friday welcomed Unilever’s backing of a moratorium on palm oil deforestation in Indonesia, saying the move will help save forests in the sprawling archipelago.
The Anglo-Dutch food and consumer goods company announced Thursday it would aim to use only palm oil from fully traceable sources by 2015 in an effort to reduce [...]
Deforestation continues at an alarming rate, dying forests will feed global warming
Posted on February 11, 2008 - Filed Under Deforestation, Global Warming, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
In the gloomy shade deep in Africa’s rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
From Brazil to central Africa to once-lush islands in Asia’s archipelagos, human [...]
