BREAKING: as Earth's major forests begin to collapse a new report shows 95% of companies behind catastrophic rapid industrial-scale deforestation have failed to take meaningful action since pledging to stop the destruction 10 years ago with a 2025 tipping point deadline looming🧵
1. Rainforests in SE Asia have hit tipping points. 20- 26% of the Amazon Rainforest is in a state of collapse
"The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present"
Savannization is already taking place in both Brazil and Bolivia.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/0…
2. Climate scientist and Amazon Rainforest expert Carlos Nobre warns that deforestation across the whole of the Amazon must end by next year.
3. Horrific: 'Some companies.. have shown some signs of progress.. in cleaning up.. supply chains.. Those kinds of policies give companies a slightly higher “score”.. But..only 21 companies and three financial institutions [out of 500] scored more than 50%'news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ten-ye…
4. 'If deforestation reaches 20-25 percent, it could tip the Amazon into a death spiral in which it dries out and becomes savanna, according.. scientist Carlos Nobre.'
The link to the 2021 Reuters article with Nobre's 2025 deadline quote no longer works.
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5. See here
6. Deforestation in the Amazon has slowed over the last 12- 18 months, but increased globally in 2022.
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