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Theo Francken is to present a €50 million anti-drone plan next week

Zwei Männer wurden im Kanton Zürich auf frischer Tat ertappt, als sie gerade in eine Autogarage einbrachen. Dabei hatte die Polizei einen tierischen Helfer.

In Zürich wehrt sich die FDP mit einem Referendum gegen günstigen Wohnraum für Gutverdiener. Werden auf dem umkämpften Zürcher Wohnungsmarkt linke Ideen plötzlich auch bei den Bürgerlichen salonfähig?

Le président de la République Abdelmadjid Tebboune a reçu une lettre de son homologue russe Vladimir Poutine. Les deux chefs d’États ont abordé plusieurs sujets, […]

L’article Algérie – Russie : Tebboune reçoit une lettre de Poutine est apparu en premier sur .

Les experts de Kaspersky tirent la sonnette d’alarme face à une nouvelle vague d’e-mails frauduleux qui exploitent l’image de grandes compagnies aériennes. Ces cybercriminels se […]

L’article Kaspersky met en garde contre une vague de faux e-mails au nom des grandes compagnies aériennes est apparu en premier sur .

FIAT El Djazaïr vient d’annoncer, ce dimanche, la commercialisation du Doblo Panorama GPL, une version bicarburation essence-GPL pensée pour conjuguer économie et respect de l’environnement. […]

L’article Fiat Algérie lance le Doblo Panorama GPL : prix, autonomie et garantie dévoilés est apparu en premier sur .

Wenn es wieder früher dunkel wird, sind Kerzen vermehrt im Einsatz. Sie schaffen eine gemütliche Atmosphäre mit warmem Licht. Beim Kauf und der Verwendung von Kerzen gilt es aber einiges zu beachten.

Schiri-Experte Urs Meier analysiert zwei strittige Szenen aus den Samstagspartien in Winterthur und Zürich. Bei beiden sieht er eine Fehlleistung der Schiedsrichter auf dem Platz.

Er ist der Kuppler der Nation: Sein eigenes Liebesglück hat der «Bauer, ledig, sucht...»-Moderator allerdings schon länger gefunden. Kurz vor seinem 50. Geburtstag gibt Marco Fritsche nun Einblick in seine Zukunftspläne.

Richard Ringer und Nada Ina Pauer haben sich auf die baldige Geburt ihrer Tochter gefreut. Nun müssen sie von ihr Abschied nehmen, ohne sie kennengelernt zu haben. Sie ist noch im Mutterleib verstorben.

Les principales compagnies aériennes européennes, réunies au sein de l’association Airlines For Europe (A4E), ont finalement standardisé la taille minimale du bagage personnel inclus dans […]

L’article Bonne nouvelle pour les voyageurs : la taille du bagage cabine harmonisée dans toute l’Europe est apparu en premier sur .

Le ministre des Travaux publics et des Infrastructures de base, Abdelkader Djellaoui, a marqué un pas significatif dans l’amélioration du réseau routier national en procédant, […]

L’article Désengorgement de la capitale : un tronçon autoroutier de 10 km inauguré entre ces deux wilayas est apparu en premier sur .

Christine Brand Furrer, die Mutter des verstorbenen Radtalents Muriel Furrer, spricht in der christlichen TV-Sendung «Fenster zum Sonntag» erstmals ausführlich über den Verlust ihrer Tochter.

Auteur de bande dessinée serbe, Aleksandar Zograf, pose sur ces pages son regard sur cette année de révolte et de mobilisation en Serbie, menée par les jeunes. Une BD inédite en français.

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Aleksandar Zograf, auteur de bande dessinée serbe. Il pose sur ces pages son regard sur cette année de mobilisation en Serbie, menée par les jeunes.

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Sônia Guajajara, Brazil's minister for Indigenous peoples, addresses an official Pre-COP Opening Ceremony. Credit: Rafa Neddermeyer/COP30 Brasil Amazônia

By Tanka Dhakal
BLOOMINGTON, USA, Nov 2 2025 (IPS)

Strengthening Indigenous land rights will protect more forest in Brazil’s Amazon and avoid large amounts of carbon emission, according to new research released ahead of COP30.

An analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) finds Indigenous lands and protected areas are key in solving deforestation; without them, Brazilian Amazon forest loss would be 35 percent higher. This would result in nearly 45 percent higher carbon emissions.

At a time when the Amazon forest is constantly losing its forest cover and an irreversible tipping point, the report says, “placing more forests under Indigenous or government protection would prevent up to an additional 20 percent of deforestation and 26 percent of carbon emissions by 2030.”

The analysis, “The Importance of Protected Areas in Reducing Deforestation in the Legal Amazon,” also finds that current protected areas—indigenous lands and conservation units will prevent an estimated total of 4.3 million hectares of deforestation between 2022 and 2030 in the nine Brazilian states. The impact would mean that 2.1 GtCO₂e (gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent) will be avoided—more than the annual carbon emissions of Russia, or approximately 5.6 percent of the world’s annual emissions.

Approximately 63.4 million hectares of Brazilian Amazon forests remain unprotected, and should this land be designated as Indigenous lands or protected, the loss of forest due to land grabbing, cattle ranching, soy farming or other destructive activities could be avoided.

“The Amazon, as all the climate scientists now clearly agree, is approaching a tipping point, which, if it passes, will mean that a large part of the ecosystem will unravel and transform from forest into scrub Savannah,” said Steve Schwartzman, Associate Vice President for Tropical Forests at EDF.

“How close we are to the tipping point is not clear, but it’s very clear that deforestation needs to stop and we need to begin restoring the areas that have been deforested.”

He says that the future of the already struggling world’s largest rainforest—the Amazon—depends on protecting this vast area of Indigenous territories, protected areas, and Quilombola territories.

“As delegates gather for COP30, it’s critical that they’re armed with evidence that points to the most effective solutions,” he added.

Belém, a Brazilian city in the Amazon region, is hosting the annual UN climate talks from November 10-21.

The research shows that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples have lower deforestation rates and store significantly more carbon than other areas. Between 1985 and 2020, 90 percent of Amazon deforestation occurred outside of Indigenous lands, with just 1.2 percent of native vegetation lost over that period.

The Amazon territories managed by Indigenous communities with recognized land rights have stored far more carbon than they have emitted. Between 2001 and 2021, they released around 120 million metric tons of carbon (CO₂) annually while removing 460 million metric tons.

The nine states of Legal Amazon-Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Maranhão, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins-contain approximately 60% of the entire Amazon rainforest, which spans eight South American countries. Of the region’s total area of 510 million hectares, in 2022, around 393 million hectares would be covered by native vegetation in the Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal biomes. By the end of 2021, the region had deforested 112.5 million hectares.

“Protected areas in the Brazilian Legal Amazon are critical for the preservation of native vegetation, carbon stocks, biodiversity, the provision of ecosystem services and the livelihoods of indigenous people and local communities. Our model captures that protected areas avoid deforestation inside their boundaries and beyond due to spatial interactions across the landscape,” said Breno Pietracci, an environmental economist consultant and lead report researcher.

As countries prepare to present their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) at COP30, Indigenous Peoples in Brazil have pushed for governments to include the recognition of Indigenous lands, support Indigenous-led climate solutions, and greater legal protections for Indigenous lands in their plans.

“We think that it is not possible to protect the Amazon, where we have Quilombola people and Afro-descendant people, without recognizing their rights in terms of climate negotiations at the UN,” said Denildo “Bico” Rodrigues de Moraes, executive coordinator of the National Coordination of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (CONAQ). “It is very important for us to be recognized, for this to be recognized in the climate negotiations at the UN.”

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Research shows that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples have lower deforestation rates and store significantly more carbon than other areas.

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