The research underscores that, in Brazil's context, solutions rooted in nature itself prove more effective than costly technological interventions like carbon capture.
Scientist Paulo Artaxo says the platform can be used as a tool for the governments of all nine countries in the Amazon basin to devise public policies to reduce deforestation in the region, for instance.
Brazil’s public policies led to the reduction of 2.6 million tons in greenhouse gas emissions over the last two years, the country’s Environment Minister Edson Duarte said Wednesday (Aug. 22) during the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week, in Montevideo.
Brazil’s President Michel Temer approved the country’s yearly greenhouse gas emission targets for the next ten years.