About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/fdfcfce87c54aa07fc9d5fddf6c901baffb547bfcb47246725f00449

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/fdfcfce87c54aa07fc9d5fddf6c901baffb547bfcb47246725f00449 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	Brazil's carbon emissions surged last year because of rising deforestation in the Amazon, jeopardizing the country's commitments under the Paris climate accord, an environmental group warned Friday. The South American country spewed a total of 2.17 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2019, an increase of 9.6 percent from 2018, said the Brazilian Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental organizations. That coincided with the first year in office for President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right climate-change skeptic who has presided over a sharp increase in deforestation and wild fires in the Amazon. The world's biggest rainforest is a vital resource in the fight against climate change, as its trees suck carbon from the air. But when they are felled and burned, they release it back. "The growth in (Brazil's) emissions last year was driven by deforestation in the Amazon, which surged," the Climate Observatory said in a report. It said 72 percent of the country's emissions were caused by agriculture and land use, including deforestation, which rose 85 percent last year. Under the 2015 Paris accord, Brazil agreed to cut its emissions by 37 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. But last year's emissions came in 17 percent over target, the Climate Observatory said. It said the country was also on track to miss a 2010 commitment to cut emissions by at least 36.8 percent by the end of 2020. The actual figure will come in nine percent higher, it said. "Our 2020 goal was easy to reach. We were only going to miss it if there was a tragedy. And that's exactly what's happening," said Climate Observatory executive secretary Marcio Astrini. The report came as Vice President Hamilton Mourao, the head of Bolsonaro's task force on the Amazon, led foreign ambassadors on a three-day visit to the region in a bid to improve the government's international image on the environment. "We want them to see it with their own eyes... and draw their own conclusions," said Mourao. But environmental groups condemned the trip as a whitewash. "They are flying on a route that's strategically planned to hide the evidence of the destruction of the forest, even as deforestation and wild fires are at a 10-year high," Greenpeace said in a statement. lg/jhb/jh
schema:headline	Brazil off to bad start on Paris climate deal: watchdog
schema:mentions	The Actual (band) Climate change denial Vice president Hamilton Academical F.C. Deforestation Greenpeace Far-right politics Paris Agreement Greenhouse gas President of Brazil Agriculture Amazon rainforest Global warming Jair Bolsonaro Paris Brazil United States Whitewash Carbon dioxide equivalent
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2020-11-06 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	negative sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	60 (xsd:integer)

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software