One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030, little has been done to finance protections or pass new conservation laws, experts say.
, with forest clearing rising another 23% in 2022 after hitting a 15-year high in 2021.
"Pressure from the international community on Lula is just as welcome," said ecologist Rita Mesquita with Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research. "We need zero deforestation.", ahead of taking office in January, in a bid to reestablish Brazil's leadership on deforestation and climate change, his advisers told Reuters.
"The commitment is to reverse the trend , and this will take a lot of work," Izabella Teixeira, former environment minister under Lula, told Reuters.Democratic Republic of Congo's deforestation rate over the past 20 years is the highest in its history, driven by poverty and lawlessness, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Association.
The government promised after COP26 to improve forest safeguards, but has yet to show any concrete efforts to do so. Instead, Congo drew international condemnation for a plan to open areas of pristine rainforest and carbon-rich peatlands to oil and gas"Deforestation is at its peak in the provinces due to the lack of an energy policy," said Guillaume Tshitende, a research scientist at the country's Kolwezi University.
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