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It is the industrialized countries that have done the most damage to the Amazon rainforests. ‘Brazil’s president says “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world’s [...]

In 1997, the three energy multinationals American Electric Power (AEP), BP-Amoco (BP), and Paci?corp signed an agreement with the government of Bolivia. The deal involved for these companies to be allocated the carbon offsets generated by keeping trees standing, ‘in return for millions of dollars of investment for the protection of an area of rainforest [...]

The Western demand for beef and leather is dictating the current trend in overranching in the Amazon forests of Brazil, thus causing persistent deforestation. So says a three-year survey conducted by Greenpeace. Cattle seems to produce a lot of lucrative products and by-products: meat for fresh and canned food, leather hide for fashion, fat for toothpaste, [...]