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7. Have the agreements to reduce the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest worked?

In 2006, when the companies responsible for most of the Brazilian soybean trade signed a pact with several NGOs, led by Greenpeace, not to acquire soy from the affected areas, the decline in deforestation rates was considerable. This was celebrated in the environmental media, but also the euphoria was short-lived, since the repeal of old laws and the approval of new ones, reinitiated the cut down of trees, even those strictly prohibited. In this way the destruction of the jungle was reinitiated since 2013, which has increased in the following years. If the Amazon rainforest were lost and most of the trees were lost, we would be left without its capacity to absorb CO2, the one most responsible for the greenhouse effect and as a consequence of global warming and climate change. If we add that 20% of the planet’s fresh water comes from the Amazon River, it is not difficult to imagine the catastrophe that this would represent for our mother Earth.

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