{"id":461,"date":"2010-12-13T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedexplanations.org\/?p=461"},"modified":"2011-09-24T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:48:13","slug":"the-amazon-is-taking-a-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/2010\/12\/13\/the-amazon-is-taking-a-deep-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon is taking a deep breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedexplanations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot6_llt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"Deforested land in the Amazon (1988-2009)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedexplanations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot6_llt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot6_llt1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/unexp_graphshot6_llt1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>A rest for the Amazon<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The brazilian Amazon is taking a rest. At least a little one. In year 2009 the brazilian tropical forest experienced the lowest deforestion rate of the last 21 years, with &#8216;only&#8217; 7,464\u00a0square km being deforested (more than the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo). Currently land use change (whose main driver is deforestation) is reponsible for the emission of the 18% of the total greenhouse gases in the world. For this reason is one of the busiest topics on international climate negotiations.<\/p>\n<h4>What is causing deforestation?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main drivers of the land use change in Brazil have been cattle ranching, soy cultivation and logging, whose production has been increased as a result of increased demand both domestically and internationally. But the economic boom of the new emerging economies, with China as the main protagonist, is causing the emergence of a new global middle class whose income growth is causing a change in diet towards increased consumption of animal protein foods and dairy products. This is causing an increasing demand for these goods, in which Brazil is a world class producer, and exporter, at the expense of a greater use of land in the Amazon. Luckily, the trend seems to be reversing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In year 2009 the brazilian tropical forest experienced the lowest deforestion rate of the last 21 years, with &#8216;only&#8217; 7,464 square km being deforested. That is to say more than the surface of the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo.<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/2010\/12\/13\/the-amazon-is-taking-a-deep-breath\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,26,120],"tags":[113,18,114,31,5,115,116,117,65,118,119,121,122,123],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-graphshot","category-latin-america","tag-amazon","tag-brazil","tag-cattle","tag-china","tag-climate","tag-deforestation","tag-emission","tag-forest","tag-ghg","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-land-use-change","tag-logging","tag-soya","tag-tropical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/3858406781_a0f51f7e3a_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedexplanations.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}