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The remaining deforestation primarily results from small-scale subsistence agriculture [11] and mechanized cropland producing crops such as soy and palm. [12] Satellite data from 2018 revealed a decade-high rate of deforestation in the Amazon, [13] with approximately 7,900 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) destroyed between August 2017 and July 2018.
Amazon's negative impact on the environment can be attributed to their business presence in logistics, supply chain, data centers, and consumer products.The company's large scale along with a heavy reliance on fossil fuels and plastic, as well as their anti-environmental lobbying practices [13] [14] contribute to the criticism.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
At this rate, Brazil's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 38.9% was to be reached by 2016 rather than 2020. [39] Between 2010 and 2018, Amazon deforestation rates have indeed been low, but data suggests that (in the Amazon region), since 2019, the deforestation rate is again rising considerably. [40]
The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA; Portuguese: Programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia) is a joint initiative sponsored by government and non-government agencies to expand protection of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
Amazon Conservation Association (ACA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to conserve the biodiversity of the Amazon basin through the development of new scientific understanding, sustainable resource management and rational land-use policy.
At the same time, the research says businesses should avoid talking about “right and wrong," and skip loaded, amorphous words and phrases like “sustainability” and “ESG,” short for ...
Finally, one last study shows that there is real growth in global sustainable investment assets between 2012 and 2020, with asset value growth from 13.6 trillion USD to 35.3 trillion USD. [42] This growth in ESG-compliant funds is, of course, in line with investors' growing interest in sustainable investment.