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Brazil Repeals Forest Code and Deforestation Accelerates
2014-01-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EP: In 2014, constitutional challenges to Brazil's dismantled Forest Code will determine if wholesale destruction of the earth's largest forest complexes¾and important carbon sinks¾will continue. These rulings may herald a return of Brazil's environmental policy that for decades attempted to protect the largest tropical forests in the world. Brazil's iconic Amazon forest provides an essential natural defense against global warming by capturing world-wide carbon dioxide emissions. Once...
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