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Around 100 states, including Brazil and Canada, pledged to stop deforestation by 2030 at the COP26 on climate change in Glasgow (Scotland). An insufficient gesture according to scientists, who warn about the importance of preserving the large forests now.
With its 390 billion trees, the Amazon rainforest, the largest reservoir of animal and plant species, is ten times the size of France. It concentrates more than half of the tropical rainforests of the planet. A true carbon sink, it alone absorbed 7% of carbon emissions in the atmosphere in recent decades. In order to grow and produce its energy, each plant consumes water, light and pumps the carbon present in the air. This is how the Amazon rainforest has slowed down global warming for a long time.
But for the past ten years, it has been affected by several scourges, including deforestation and the effects of global warming. Today, not only is the Amazon no longer a carbon sink, but it rejects massively. Scientists are warning and calling for an end to deforestation and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, at the risk of seeing the Amazon cross a point of no return, and with it, the entire planet.
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