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
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...
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. ...
Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin1,2, but is increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire3,4. Here we quantify these impacts over the past two decades using remote-sensing estimates of fire and deforestation and comprehensive range estimates of...
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...
TheForests and Financereport highlights the significant progress of tropical forest countries and key import and financial jurisdictions in promoting sustainable financial practices and combating deforestation. Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, the United States, and the European Union have all taken notable steps...
This is a bar graph depicting how ecological debtors have increased from 35% in 1970 to 70% in the present day. The second tab of the chart highlights the top five creditors – led by Brazil – and the top five debtors – led by China. ...
This is a core role of social protection and is important all-around for managing climate change now and in the future: not only for worsening climate extremes, but also for managing slow-onset events, managing the externalities of responses to climate change, facilitating adaptation and mitigation...
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For example: Let’s say you’re representing a company trying to expand its production in Brazil. But there are questions about adherence to the country’s strict deforestation and land use regulations. DISCO’s AI-prioritized review – in tandem with its multilingual predictive tagging model –...