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Title: As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall
Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/07/1747...
Last year Brazil saw its biggest drop in emissions since 2009, new data show.
The decline comes in the wake of a crackdown on deforestation. From a report:
Since returning to power in 2022, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has
moved to stem illicit clearing of forest by miners, loggers, and farmers,
stepping up enforcement that had been weakened under his predecessor, far-
right president Jair Bolsonaro. Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is now
at its lowest level in more than a decade. In Brazil, forests are largely
destroyed to create new cropland and pasture, and together, the loss of
forest and raising of cattle are its biggest sources of emissions. Lula's
crackdown on illegal deforesters has put those emissions in check. According
to the Climate Observatory, a green group, Brazilian emissions fell by 16.7
percent last year. "The new data shows the impact of the federal government
retaking control over deforestation after a deliberate lack of control
between 2019 and 2022," when Bolsonaro held office, the group said in a
statement. Lula aims to end illegal deforestation entirely by the end of this
decade, but as he makes progress on this goal, Brazil is still facing
worsening droughts and fires fueled by warming. Last year, fires accounted
for two-thirds of the primary tropical forest lost in Brazil, according to
the World Resources Institute. Often small fires used to clear land get out
of control, burning through larger, drought-ridden areas.
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