How Brazil Curbed Amazon Deforestation by 90 Percent in 10 YearsDeforestation in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil has plummeted inthe last decade, as the...Schouten, Lucy
While COVID-19 has impacted all facets of our lives across the globe, one of the lesser-explored environmental implications of coronavirus has been its effect on deforestation. Click to read more...
Related Articles:Amazon Rainforest,Brazil Transcript NARRATOR: More and more rainforest is cleared as a way of solving growing problems. And the needs of tomorrow lose to the needs of today, whether for more housing, or roads, or lumber, or farmland, or pasture. ...
breakthroughs. In most cases, NCS cost between $10 and $40 per ton of CO2, with variations between geographies and project types. Avoided deforestation has the greatest abatement potential overall, but also some of the highest costs (for example, approximately $30...
Deforestation and fires in the Amazon have soared under the administration of Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has adoptedpoliciesthat undermine Brazil’s various environmental protection and monitoring agencies. Under Bolsonaro, the Brazilian Amazon has lost an area of fore...
Preventing deforestation in Brazil by democratizing data Amazon democratizes AI so other companies can use it to help meet their own sustainability goals. As one example, AWSworked with a Brazilian nonprofitto develop a large-scale AI model that monitors deforestation. This has enabled automatic monit...
Deforestation and the drainage of peatlands worsen drought conditions andincrease landscape flammability- contributing to the occurrence of extreme wildfires in countries such as Brazil and Indonesia, the OECD report added. Certain forestry practices also increase wildfire risk, as evidenced in 2017 in ...
Businesses will need to demonstrate that their supply chains adhere to stringent sustainability and deforestation-free standards.What Regions And Businesses Will Be The Most Affected By EUDR?Kostiantyn Chernyshevskyi: The most affected are the regions that export the restricted commodities to the EU....
Recent expansion into Brazil, Europe, and Japan has increased revenue somewhat, but as the reach of Amazon’s logisticsplatformincreases, so too do Amazon’s logistical costs. In August 2022,the company raised its fees for sellers who utilize its Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) serviceto counter ris...
“In a business sense it means that everything has two functions — to take and give back,” notes Stephanie McEvoy, Founder, Farming Carbon. “It's reciprocal. In terms of supply chain, procurement, consumer and community relationships, it’s important that we move away f...