Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yearsEnvironmental | 206478 hits | Nov 14 8:22 am | Posted by: Hyack  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 per cent from August 2008 to July 2009 -- the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said ThursdayCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Here's an old article from 2006.
22 March 2006
Deforestation is the cause of 80 per cent of Brazil's CO2 emissions.
The Brazilian government is promoting the use of biodiesel produced from soya beans to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
But, says Giulio Volpi in this article, clearing large areas of Amazonian rainforest to grow soybeans is too high an environmental price for this policy to be sustainable.
He says the deforestation caused by soybean farming in Brazil means the biodiesel has "virtually no advantage" over fossil fuels, in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by each form of fuel.
Deforestation is responsible for 80 per cent of Brazil's carbon dioxide emissions.
Volpi's article responds to another, by Brazil's president Luiz In�cio 'Lula' da Silva, promoting the country's efforts to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
Volpi argues policymakers should only promote biofuels whose overall environmental effect is positive.
To achieve this, he calls for a certification scheme to assess each biofuel according to environmental and social criteria.
http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/brazi ... nable.html
The same thing was happening in Indonesia. They damn near drove the Orangutans to extinction because of it. I think they're starting to smarten up a little too though. Kyoto was the big villain there.