Deforestation

Trees mainly take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on the Earth and release oxygen through photosynthesis. Forests also respire, but when forests are growing, photosynthesis exceeds respiration, storing excess carbon in trees. As a result, forests reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and store large amounts of carbon in the tree trunk. Humans have begun to clear and develop forests, including tropical forests, which have various effects. When humans keep doing deforestation, trees release most of the carbon back into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide. Consequently, deforestation is accelerating global warming.

Global Forest Watch reports that tropical forest loss contributes 8% to global carbon dioxide emissions. Deforestation is the third largest global emitter if we assume the national deforestation figure. In other words, deforestation emits more carbon dioxide than the European Union. In addition, between 2015 and 2017, forest-related emissions increased by 63% compared to the 14-year average. Year after year, staggering levels of emissions increase around the world.

Rainforests and forests should not be perceived simply as their function of storing carbon dioxide, releasing it as oxygen, and storing carbon. Rainforests could contribute 23% of the climate change mitigation needed to keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius by 2030. However, the reality is that the government's active intervention and support need to protect the rainforest.

Consequently, we must actively support ways to reduce deforestation to combat global warming and climate change, two of the world's most serious environmental problems. Indeed, in the past, Brazil was deforestation and increased food production. Specifically, Brazil has the world's largest forest and has been continuously deforestation. Due to the consistent deforestation, international environmental groups have labeled Brazil a villain. However, from 2004 to 2013, Brazil reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80% while increasing soybean and cattle production. The amended forest law in Brazil and the Amazon Fund of the Brazilian bank to eventually protect the Amazon produced this result.