Brazil announces massive reforestation and renewable energy plan with US
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/30/brazil-us-reforestation-forests-renewable-energy
Barack Obama and Dilma Rousseff put climate change at the top of their agenda at their bilateral meeting on Tuesday, with the US and Brazil agreeing to obtain up to 20% of their electricity from renewable power by 2030.
Brazil also committed to restoring up to 12m hectares of forest an area about the size of England or Pennsylvania in another attempt to reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change.
The White House said the initiatives were part of a new US-Brazil climate partnership, loosely modelled on the historic US-China agreement reached during Obamas visit to Beijing last November, intended to build momentum for a global deal to fight climate change in Paris at the end of the year.
Following progress during my trips to China and India, this shows that the worlds major economies can begin to transcend some of the old divides and work together to confront the common challenge that we face, said Obama at a joint press conference with his Brazilian counterpart.
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Brazil reduced deforestation rates 80% from 2000 to 2012
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-07-03/how-brazil-has-dramatically-reduced-tropical-deforestation
NOTE TO EPA: Don't let these facts get in the way of your use of models to calculate ILUCs without any regard for verifiable facts.