Amazon decline increases 163% in two years, exorcism

The rapid growth in Brazilian Amazon’s decline in the main flames, which covered a significant decrease in the eradication of forest between 2022 and 2024. This “negative balance” for the protection of the biome compromises international goals to deal with the country’s climate crisis, this year’s United

The warning came from an article published in the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) scientists in the Journal “Global Change Biology” in partnership with the United States University.

While the forest erosion is completely eliminated by local vegetation coverage, the deterioration weakens the forest from completely destroying the forest. For example, this is the context of selective cutting of trees.

According to the study, Amazon’s decline warnings rose 44% to 2023 to 2024 – 163% compared to 2022. This means that last year 25,023 km 2 forest was degraded, 66%by forest fires. This is a larger area than Sergip status.

In the opposite direction, the forest erosion fell 27.5% and 54.2%, respectively, which indicates a low increase in ten years. According to data from Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Monitoring Program (Prods) from InpE, 5,816 km 2 in 2024 was eradicated.

“Deterioration is more difficult to identify than forestry, because it is still the forest standing. This is mainly due to fire, which has been exacerbated in the drought scenario in Amazon in the last two years. The choice of trees and edge effect.

The impact of drought

Between 2023 and 2024, a strong drought reached Amazon, the precipitation deficit from 50 to 100 mm per month; Temperature rises above 3 ° C and delayed during the rainy season, leaving the rivers at a minimum. With this, last year’s biome has recorded the highest number of heat outbreaks since 2007 – a total of 140,328.

For the researcher Louis Arago signed on this task, the importance of the study is that today’s satellites – the country’s critical space technologies and the INPE monitoring system allows to identify the processes.

“These processes are quietly compromising our integrity. The technologies are currently not only the ability to monitor the events, but also report their effects on the environment, population and planetary environment, but also allowing a strategic plan for stable and low carbon territorial management.”

It has been added: “Brazilian leadership in the international scenario related to the efforts to deal with climate change and lose biodiversity depends on effective responses to the forest decline. Reporting emissions associated with these processes is a way to return to national greenhouse gases. Therefore, the intensity of regulatory measures with the implementation of this process.”

CO2 Reduction Goals

Brazil is the first country to deliver the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to the new national cooperation (NDC). Of these, it is committed to reduce the net greenhouse air emissions from 59% by 2035 (850 million to 1.05 billion tonnes) compared to 2005 levels.

NDCs of each country to reduce air emissions and prevent the average increase in global temperature as established in the Paris Agreement. They must be reviewed and updated to the COP30 in November, which is done in Belem (PA).

Although it is not completely eliminated by local trees, the degradation affects the “left” forest, which affects biodiversity and reduces the ability to provide important services such as carbon capture and water bicycle regulation and ecosystem elasticity.

Previous research has already shown that nearly 40% of forests in Amazon are degraded by fires, edge effect, illegal wood extraction and extravagant drought incidents, and emphasizing the level and importance of the problem.

In this scenario, gradually carbon emissions from flora loss – between 50 million tonnes per year and 200 million tonnes per year – equal to or larger than forest erosion – between 60 million tonnes and 210 million tonnes.

In the article now published, scientists suggest that efforts should be made to improve fire management along with large -scale restoration and exporence projects.

Another way is to integrate this carbon credit market strategies, creates economic incentives to adopt stable methods for land, companies and local societies.

They also point out challenges in the size of the screening and the size of the degradation, as well as creating mechanisms to be responsible.

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