RTCC: Beef and soya products from Brazil accounted for a third of carbon emissions associated with deforestation between 1990-2010, scientists say.
They warn that the UN`s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative and bilateral programmes aimed at preserving the Amazon could be helpless in the face of rising demand for two of the country`s major exports.
The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, calls for a greater focus on the role international...