Saving the Amazon rainforest – in 10 steps | World Economic Forum
2021年7月23日 · Advanced science and technologies can save the tropical forest and the Amazon’s ecosystems, peoples and communities. New technologies and high-value bio-industries can be leveraged. These include pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, new materials and nutraceuticals – products with health benefits that are derived from food sources, such as ...
The Amazon is near a tipping point: We need urgent nature-based ...
2023年12月20日 · The Amazon biome has already lost 16% of its forests and 17% of remaining forests have been degraded. Deforestation is concentrated in southern and eastern Amazon, creating an arc of deforestation. In southeastern Amazon, forest loss reached 28% and temperature is 3.1 o C higher in the dry season month.
we need to restore the Amazon forest - The World Economic Forum
2023年1月19日 · Approximately 2 million km² of the Amazon forest has been deforested or degraded. Forest restoration is essential to prevent the Amazon from reaching a tipping point that would release more than 200 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Restoration requires planning, investment, monitoring and a strong government commitment.
How Brazil could replant the Amazon | World Economic Forum
2023年6月23日 · An Amazon “bioeconomy” built on forest-based supply chains for ecological restoration, powered by indigenous communities, is a powerful step towards achieving sustainable development in Brazil and an equitable relationship with indigenous communities. Paying indigenous peoples for native seeds and seedlings offers a forest-friendly ...
What the Amazon rainforest tells us about globalization
2018年11月8日 · The Tropical Forest Alliance, an initiative hosted by the World Economic Forum, is working with the Colombian government and businesses to protect the Amazon from commodity-driven deforestation. Ultimately, it is up to policymakers, law enforcers, and society as a whole to put its priorities, and to ensure the sustainability of the economy and ...
Restoring the Amazon rainforest while making an income. Here's …
2022年3月30日 · In the Amazon rainforest region of Caquetá in southern Colombia, cattle ranching and illegal mining lead on average to the felling of 35 thousand hectares of forest a year. Amazonía Emprende, a forest school, is helping to combat this by teaching local communities to develop sustainable businesses using nature-based solutions.
How indigenous culture protects the Amazon rainforest | World …
2022年2月10日 · Elsewhere in Colombia's tropical forest and across other parts of the Amazon, including Peru's Madre de Dios region, intermittent gold rushes and illegal mining have turned once-intact forests into dead landscapes of mining craters sunk amid sand dunes.
15 innovations helping to restore and protect the Amazon
Amazônia 4.0 is positioning the Brazilian Amazon communities as effective managers of the forest that take advantage of its natural resources for the generation of innovative local bio-businesses, value-added products in all links of the chain, without losing sight of conservation, local employment, and social inclusion. Their first ...
Indigenous land rights help protect Amazon rainforests: study
2023年6月8日 · The lush lands of the Amazon are in high demand for cattle ranching and soy plantations, largely encouraged by Bolsonaro and pro-agribusiness lawmakers, leading to the clearing of forests. In 2022, scientists estimated that more than 13% of the Amazon’s original old-growth forest was gone, a chunk of land bigger than double the size of ...
This challenge aims to protect and restore the Amazon
2021年6月4日 · Deforestation of the Amazon basin has taken on dire consequences. The trees of the Amazon rainforest have been considered the lungs of the planet - by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing 20% of the earth's oxygen - but a recent study published in Nature Climate Change revealed that the Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20% more carbon dioxide in the past 10 years than it absorbed.