The Cerrado is a key biome for Brazil’s economic development, food production, maintenance of water cycles, preservation of biodiversity, and for global climate change mitigation and adaptation. Notwithstanding its importance, the biome is often overlooked within the national and international climate change debates. The current rate of conversion in the Cerrado is not sustainable, releasing a previously unaccounted volume of carbon dioxide
The hidden emissions: how Amazon wildfires can boost Brazil’s CO2 emissions
The hidden emissions: how Amazon wildfires can boost Brazil’s CO2 emissions
This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.