Interview: Why Brazil’s New Pledges on Carbon Emissions Fall Short

Yale e360
By Yale Environment 360Nov 23, 2015, 8:40 am42 pts
In recent years, Brazil has been widely praised for reducing deforestation in the Amazon by 75 percent from 2005 to 2014. Maria Fernanda Gebara But with United Nations climate talks set to begin next week in Paris, analysts are taking a closer look at Brazil’s pledges to cut deforestation and greenhouse gas…

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