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The only exclusive biome in Brazil, the Caatinga is not considered national heritage

Even though it is exclusive to Brazil, the Caatinga is not considered national heritage and, increasingly, appears at the top of deforestation lists.

➡️ President Lula announced, this Friday (26), that the UN chose the city of Belém, in Pará, to host the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30), scheduled for 2025.

➡️ Brazil will hold, in August, a meeting with 8 countries that share the territory of the Amazon. The aim is to produce a consensus position on the forest that will be fed into future global debates on climate action.

➡️ What will happen to the Amazon when CO2 levels in the atmosphere increase significantly in the coming decades? 🤔 British and Brazilian scientists are building “carbon rings” in the largest rainforest on the planet to simulate the future and act in time.

➡️ A group of researchers from Unicamp developed an algorithm capable of projecting the future of Amazonian vegetation, presenting scenarios with forest transformations caused by climate change. 🌳

➡️ A Atlantic Forest suffered the felling of 20.075 hectares (ha) of forest in a period of one year, between October 2021 and 2022, corresponding to more than 20 thousand football fields. The data are from Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica and INPE. 

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➡️ Atlantic Forest is the Brazilian biome with the largest number of plant and animal species threatened with extinction in the country. The finding is from the Ecosystem Accounts – Endangered Species in Brazil 2022 survey, released this Wednesday (24) by IBGE. 

➡️ The Paris Olympic Games in 2024 will be the first edition of the event to completely ban the use of single-use plastic. The announcement was made by the mayor of the French capital, Anne Hidalgo, this Friday (26).

➡️ Recycling increases the toxicity of plastics, said Greenpeace in a report published this Wednesday (24). The document brings together scientific data that points to the urgency of reducing the production and use of plastic – incompatible with a circular economy.

A new report estimates that 218 million of the world's poorest people are at risk of more severe and frequent flooding caused by plastic waste.https://t.co/7yWMyDBuoK

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➡️ Faced with a barrage of insults and threats on Twitter, scientists are leaving the social network, in which climate denialism has increased since Elon Musk bought the platform. 😞

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