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Brazil calls out rich countries on global warming mongabay.com February 6, 2007 "The wealthy countries are very smart, approving protocols, holding big speeches on the need to avoid deforestation but they already deforested everything," Reuters quoted Lula as saying during the announcement of a public works project in Rio de Janeiro. "We need a different campaign, not only to protect plants and animals ... to get rich countries to reduce gas emissions."
Lula said Brazil is taking the lead on renewable engineering through pioneering work on sugar cane-based ethanol. Brazil is the largest producer of ethanol in the world. "No country is revolutionizing its energy matrix as we are," Lula said. "The so-called carbon credits they invented -- so far, we haven't seen a cent of that," he said, referring to a proposal under which industrialized countries would be allowed to continue polluting in exchange for paying developing countries to conserve their forests and not develop polluting industries. Brazil has long been suspicious of outside interest in the Amazon, fearing that "internationalization" of the rainforest would be a threat to its sovereignty. Comments? News options News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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DEFORESTATION IN BRAZIL: 60-70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon results from cattle ranches while the rest mostly results from small-scale subsistence agriculture. Logging results in forest degradation but rarely direct deforestation. However, studies have showed a close correlation between logging and future clearing for settlement and farming.
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