Responses to rainforest destruction on a global scale

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Geography - Responses to rainforest destruction on a global scale

Responses to rainforest destruction on a global scale

1995, per capita CO2 emissions in metric tons

Compare the populations of the countries listed with the total emissions
of CO2 that the country produces. Compare this information with per capita
CO2 emissions for the same country.

This resource explores local and international responses to rainforest
destruction.

In 1990, the (ITTO) became the first intergovernmental body to produce
criteria and guidelines for the sustainable management [1] of tropical
forests. Following the renegotiation of the International Tropical Timber
Agreement (ITTA) in 1994, timber-producing countries were able to extract
an agreement from timber consuming countries that they, too, would comply
with ITTO's Target 2000, [2] the year by which all forest products should
come from sustainably managed forests. This policy change was at the
instigation of the tropical timber producing countries. They did not
believe that the wealthy countries of the north [3] should be able to
enforce sustainable forest practice in the tropics, but not practice it in
their own country.

At the Earth Summit of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development (UNCED), forests were discussed. Consensus was reached on
several important issues, including the role of forests in maintaining
biological diversity and climate, the criteria and indicators for
sustainable forest management, the driving forces behind deforestation, and
the need for global policy to confront deforestation. [4]

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