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🛰️ Deforestation dip? Don’t count on it
Partial data suggests that Brazil’s all-important 2024-25 annual Amazon deforestation figure could show an increase, instead of the promised reduction.
Euan Marshall
July 10, 2025
DEFORESTATION
Amazon deforestation at risk of showing increase this year
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon is expected to increase in 2025, with experts and the federal government attributing the rise to a surge in severe wildfires. Photo: M. H. Matsu/Shutterstock
As part of Brazil hosting the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém this November, the federal government will be keen to announce a meaty annual drop in Amazon deforestation — something to rival the impressive 30% reduction recorded last year.
However, partial data from this year suggests that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won’t get his much desired deforestation decrease. And, in fact, the annual rate of destruction in the Amazon is set to increase — and this unwelcome news would be announced right before the beginning of COP30…
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