Carbon and the fate of the Amazon
This publication shows that carbon prices exceeding US$ 20 per ton of CO2 captured by the natural regeneration of deforested areas in the Amazon would be truly transformative for the region’s landscape.
Amazon
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Shared value, shared responsibility
<p>High prices and concerns about energy security in the oil and gas industry are driving expansion into ever more sensitive environments with greater technological, political and social risks. While brands such as BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are well known, some 70 per cent of oil and gas industry activities are typically contracted out to service providers and their subcontractors.
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39 things Repsol doesnt want you to know...
<p>Repsol YPF, a Spanish-Argentine company, has a contract to explore for oil in a<br /> remote part of the Peruvian Amazon known as Lot 39. This region, in northern Peru, is home to at least two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.<br /> Repsol currently claims there is not enough evidence to prove the existence of
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Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports
<p>Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some resources has reached such proportions that evidence is measurable from space.</p>
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A compendium on capacity for implementing land based mitigation
<p>The Compendium on Capacity for Implementing Land Based Mitigation has been produced in response to an identified demand from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and other country officials for greater information on national policy contexts regarding the inclusion of land in the<br /> climate change solution. <br /> </p>
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Hydro-powered dreams
AT LESS than 8,000MW, Peru
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Amazons double dry spell worries scientists
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Brazils dam-building industry: Crony capitalism goes global
"We're going to build all the dams we possibly can in the Amazon, given the current legislation, and then we're going to revisit the other potential sites that involve impacts on indigenous lands and protected areas, and see how we may exploit that hydroelectric potential as well.
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Weird Weather Leaves Amazon Thirsty
The river loops low past its bleached-white banks, where caimans bask in the fierce morning sun and stranded houseboats tilt precariously. Nearby sits a beached barge with its load of eight trucks and a crane. Its owners were caught out long ago by the speed of the river's decline. This is what it looks like when the world's greatest rainforest is thirsty.
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Geoengineering potential of artificially enhanced silicate weathering of olivine
Geoengineering is a proposed action to manipulate Earth
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Greenhouse gas emissions from alternative futures of deforestation and agricultural management in the southern Amazon
The Brazilian Amazon is one of the most rapidly developing agricultural areas in the world and represents a potentially large future source of greenhouse gases from land clearing and subsequent agricultural management. In an integrated approach, we estimate the greenhouse gas dynamics of natural ecosystems and agricultural ecosystems after clearing in the context of a future climate.