🌳 500 million trees felled in the Amazon in 2022
Half a billion. This is the number of trees that were felled in the Amazon in the year 2022, according to the counter PlenaMata.
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The PlenaMata platform was created – from a partnership between Natura, MapBiomes, InfoAmazonia e hacklab/ – with the aim of mobilizing people, companies, institutions and communities with a great objective: promoting forest conservation and ending deforestation in the Amazon.
This number of trees occupied more than 900 thousand hectares, the equivalent of 900 thousand football fields.
New numbers from the Deforestation Alert System (SAD) from the Amazon Institute of Man and Environment (Imazon), released this Tuesday (18), reveal that, between January and September this year, 9.096 km² of native vegetation were deforested in the biome, equivalent to six times the size of the city of São Paulo.
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This is the worst mark for the period in 15 years of measurements. Have you ever “given a Google” to find out the real data on deforestation in the Amazon?
🍃 Climate change threatens 1 billion children, warns NGO
Os effects of climate change threaten 1 billion children, and the general standard of living of minors around the world has stagnated in the last decade, warned this Wednesday (19) the NGO KidsRights (*)
The 2022 study is “alarming for our current and future generations of children”, said Marc Dullaert, founder and president of KidsRights.
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The KidsRights Index is the first and only ranking that annually measures how children's rights are respected around the world.
“A rapidly changing climate is now threatening their future and their basic rights. As governments around the world gather for COP27 this year, decisions must be made to invest and act now to take vital actions for change,” added Dullaert.
More than a third of the world's children (820 million) are already highly exposed to heat waves, while more than one in six children (400 million) are exposed to cyclones.
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Worryingly, almost 90% of all children worldwide are also subject to air pollution.
With climate change continuing to intensify, the situation is grim for the world's future generations in the next decade.
🌱 Green steel startup will debut technology in Brazil
A boston metal, a startup supported by the venture capital fund of Bill Gates and OK in the search for green steel, will debut its technology commercially in Brazil.
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Green steel, also known as Brazilian Green Steel (AVB), is a material developed in the country and whose main characteristic is the ecological production process. This means, in practice, that it is generated using charcoal, without the need to use fossil fuels.
Understand a little more about what it is, how it is produced and why green steel is so important:
A boston metal A plant in the Minas Gerais city of São João Del Rei should begin operating next year, to reuse mining waste and extract high-value metals from them.
According to portal Reset, the venture's business model is essentially finding value in slag and other waste that are currently financial and environmental liabilities for mining companies.
Founded by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the company is part of a wave of startups trying to prove that it is possible to produce steel with low – or even zero – carbon emissions.
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