The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

摘要: Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forest and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is formal announcement within United Nations climate treaty negotiations in 2008 an deforestation reduction target, which prompted Norway commit $1 billion if it sustains progress toward this target ( 1 ). second a widespread marketplace transition beef soy industries, main drivers deforestation, exclude deforesters from their supply chains 2 ) [supplementary online material (SOM), section (§) 4]. According our analysis, these recent developments finally make feasible Brazilian Amazon, could result 5% carbon emissions. $7 $18 beyond Brazil's current budget outlays that may be needed stop [a range intermediate previous cost estimates 3 , 4 )] provided by REDD (Reducing Emissions Deforestation Forest Degradation) mechanism for compensating under negotiation UN 5 ), or payments tropical credits U.S. cap-and-trade system 6