Latest deforestation data from PRODES suggest that there was an increase in clear cut deforestation of 29% in 2016. An area of almost 8.000 square-kilometers, equivalent to 1.6 Mio. football fields was deforested in 2016 with sharp increases along the agricultural frontier. Is this a sign that the trend for reducing deforestation in Brazil is going to revert again?
In the In this short radio-interview with Christoph König from SWR2 Impuls I discuss some of the eventual drivers of this recent change and possible solutions to address this problem in the future. You can download the german podcast here.
Annual relative variation of clear cut deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Source: PRODES
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