Amazon is expanding its investments in nature-based solutions that fight climate change with two new agroforestry projects in the Amazon Rainforest.
Amazon is expanding its investments in nature-based solutions that fight climate change with two new agroforestry projects in the Amazon Rainforest. These projects will improve livelihoods for local farming communities while removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere and demonstrating an innovative new quality standard for measuring and verifying carbon dioxide removal in agroforestry and restoration projects. These new investments are part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
The world lost 4.1 million hectares of tropical forest in 2022, emitting 2.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere—as much as India’s annual fossil fuel emissions. Globally, deforestation and other land use change account for as much as ( article continues at About Amazon )