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About Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 6,300,000 km², or about 35. 5 percent that of the South American continent.
Amazon rainforest: Deforestation rate continues to fall
... Last month, President Lula hosted leaders from the eight countries that share the Amazon Basin at a summit in the city of Belém...
Amazon nations fall short of agreed goal to end deforestation
...By Christy Cooney in London & Katy Watson in Belém, BrazilBBC NewsThe eight countries that share the Amazon Basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation...
Drought robs Amazon communities of 'life-giving' river
... Such low water levels pose an existential threat to the estimated 30 million people that call the Amazon Basin home, including Mr Rufino s indigenous Ticuna people...
COP26: World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030
... Tuntiak Katan, coordinator of the Coordination of Indigenous Communities of the Amazon Basin, welcomed the deal telling BBC News that indigenous communities are on the frontline of stopping deforestation...
Deforested parts of the Amazon, emit more CO2 than they absorb'
... results from a decade-long study of greenhouse gases over the Amazon Basin appear to show about 20% of the entire area has become a net source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
World 'losing battle against deforestation'
... Globally, net deforestation continues apace Tropical forest loss accounts for more than 90% of global deforestation, with the hotspot being located in Amazon Basin nations of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru...
Are fires in the Amazon and elsewhere getting worse?
... There is a similar pattern for other areas of Brazilian forestry that are not part of the Amazon Basin...
Amazon fires: Brazil governors push Bolsonaro to accept aid
...South American countries will meet to discuss a coordinated response to the fires ravaging the Amazon Basin next week, Brazil s President Jair Bolsonaro has announced...
World 'losing battle against deforestation'
Aerial view of a suspected illegal logging site in Brazil
A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation has failed, according to a report.
An assessment of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) says it has failed to deliver on key pledges.
Launched at the 2014 UN climate summit, it aimed to half deforestation by 2020, and halt it by 2030.
Yet deforestation continues at an alarming rate and threatens to prevent The World from preventing dangerous Climate Change , experts have said.
The critique, compiled by the NYDF Assessment Partners (a coalition of 25 organisations), painted a bleak picture of how The World 's forests continue to be felled.
Deforestation 'accelerating'"Since the NYDF was launched five years ago, deforestation has not only continued - it has actually accelerated," observed Charlotte Streck , co-founder and director of Climate Focus, which co-ordinated the publication of The Report .
The Report says the amount of annual carbon emissions resulting from deforestation around the globe are equivalent to The Greenhouse gases produced by the European Union .
On average, an area of tree cover the size of the United Kingdom was lost every year between 2014 and 2018.
Globally, net deforestation continues apaceTropical forest loss accounts for More Than 90% of global deforestation, with the hotspot being located in Amazon Basin nations of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
Craig Hanson, vice-president of food, forest, water & The Ocean at The World Resources Institute, described the findings as a "mixed report card".
"There are some places in The World where we are suffering dramatic loss of primary forest, so we are losing the battle on stopping deforestation," he told reporters.
"In other places, we are finding that there are new trees that are enriching rural landscapes, but we are still seeing a net reduction in The Number of forests The World has. "
Emerging hotspotWorryingly, say the authors, a new deforestation hotspot in West Africa is emerging. The rate of tree-felling in the Democratic Republic of Congo has doubled in The Past five years.
The New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) is a voluntary and a legally non-binding agreement to take action to halt global deforestation.
It was first endorsed at the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2014, and by October 2017 40 governments, 57 multi-national companies and 58 non-government organizations had endorsed the declaration.
Political actionDespite the bleak outlook on a global scale, The Report did highlight the positive steps being made in Indonesia, which has long been associated with devastating deforestation.
The authors said political action was a contributing factor. The country's president has banned the development of peatlands and primary forests.
However, researchers highlighted why the overall picture was so gloomy and why halting deforestation was so vital in the battle against Climate Change .
"Halting deforestation and restoring Tropical Forests , for example, could provide up to 30% of the mitigation required to help meet the Paris Agreement," explained Eszter Wainwright-Deri, forestry technical advisor at the Zoological Society of London.
"This cannot be achieved while zero-deforestation commitments continue to be dishonoured. "
The WRI's Mr Hanson concluded: ""We are losing the battle but we should not give up hope. This report, among other things, gives a clarion call that we need to re-energise commitment, action and financing towards the NYDF. "
environment, carbon dioxide, deforestation of the amazon rainforest
Source of news: bbc.com
