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Threat to the Amazon rainforest needs an urgent response

Threat to the Amazon rainforest needs an urgent response

FromEuropean Parliament - EPRS Policy podcasts


Threat to the Amazon rainforest needs an urgent response

FromEuropean Parliament - EPRS Policy podcasts

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Length:
7 minutes
Released:
Dec 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A record number of fires – many intentionally set – swept through the Amazon rainforest in the summer of 2019, reducing large chunks of the world's largest tropical rainforest to piles of ash. How has the international community responded to protect this precious 'global good'? And what are the plans to ensure that this ecological disaster isn't repeated?
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI(2019)644198
Source: © European Union - EP
Released:
Dec 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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