Dr Bernice Maxton-Lee is the author of Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure, published in 2020 by Routledge. She submitted this Guest Post about deforestation in Indonesia.
Tag: Deforestation
Tropical forests are losing their ability to store carbon. “What more of a wake-up call do we need?”
By Chris Lang According to research published in Nature, one of the most worrying impacts of the climate crisis has already started. Tropical forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon. The research found that the Amazon could stop being a carbon sink as soon as 2035.
The Amazon rainforest: Tipping points and false solutions
By Chris Lang In September 2007, a paper by a group of Brazilian researchers was published in Geophysical Research Letters. The title was “Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion”.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon this year reached the highest rate since 2008
By Chris Lang Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest increased this year to its highest rate since 2008, according to data released this week by Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (INPE). The data reveal that Amazon deforestation rose by 30% compared to last year.
Open letter to the Green Climate Fund opposing REDD results-based payments in Paraguay
By Chris Lang A group of Paraguayan and international organisations have sent an open letter to the board of the Green Climate Fund which will meet in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 12 to 14 November 2019. Several of the funding requests under consideration are related to REDD, including an extraordinarily bad proposal to subsidise…