Amazon Highlights 8 – 10 reasons for zero legal and illegal deforestation in the Amazon

4 de abril de 2017

abr 4, 2017

In regard to the reduction of Amazonian deforestation and its associated emissions, the established target must urgently be fulfilled much before 2030, and further to this: the end of legal removal of native vegetation of the region must be sought. This newsletter lists the top ten reasons for putting an end to the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.

Authors: Moutinho, P., and Guerra, R. 10 reasons for zero legal and illegal deforestación in the Amazon. Amazon in Focus 8. IPAM, Brasília, DF. 2017.

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WHRC and IPAM are convinced that there is now a consensus in the international community that to avoid “dangerous interference” in the global climate system (the primary objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Article 2), tropical deforestation should be greatly reduced, as also recommended by two important reports prepared since Workshop I: the Stern Review4 and the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC5.