BRASILIA, Dec. 1, 2008 (AFP) -- The Brazilian government on Monday announced
a plan under which it would cut deforestation of the Amazon by 70 percent over
the next decade.
It is the first time Brazil, home to the largest area of tropical woodland
on the planet, has set a target for reducing the damage wreaked by illegal
loggers and ranchers.
Environment Minister Carlos Minc unveiled the initiative in the presence of
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and said it would be formally presented at
a U.N. climate change conference underway this week in Poland.
"Just in terms of avoided deforestation in the Amazon, the plan foresees a
reduction of 4.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide that won't be emitted up to
2018 -- which is more than the reduction efforts fixed by all the rich
countries," Minc said.
The minister said Brazil hopes to use the plan to "increase the number of
contributors to the Amazon Fund" launched last August which aims to collect
money from around the world to fight deforestation.
Copyright 2008 -- Agence France-Presse
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Tasermons Partner Posted 11:56 am
01 Dec 2008
Still, at least they're payin' attention to the issue (or tryin' to defer attention after the media recently reported on the deforestation increase).
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Wolverine Posted 4:26 pm
02 Dec 2008
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Golden Toad Posted 12:25 am
03 Dec 2008
Hopefully Minc's plan will prevail.
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amazingdrx Posted 1:44 am
03 Dec 2008
Enforcement meeds to target employers who pay the serf wages. Choke off the problem where it meets the market place. Stop the logging trucks hauling illegally harvested trees.
Stop the businesses employing illegal labor. Stop government from giving industry tax breaks to outsource jobs.
Of course industry lobbyists are hip to this strategy too, so they do all they can to divert attention with things like border fences, racial strife, and venom directed at ecoists, who they claim are responsible for starvation and poverty in developing nations.
Stopping the destruction of the earth? That amounts to genocide according to wing nut free marketeerian think tankers in the pocket of corporatism.
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