Brazil, being the fifth-largest country in the world, has a population of approximately 200 million people which has increasingly become urbanised since the 1950s, with 85% of the current population living in urban areas. However, like many other countries, in the course of this urban development and economic growth, may have neglected measures of sustainability for the present and future.
The current national focus and priority of the country is on economic stabilization policies even though Brazil is the seventh-largest economy in the world. This may be due to the fact that Brazil has extreme inequalities in respect to income distribution. The per capita income places it between the richest and poorest countries in the world, concealing …show more content…
Brazil has been quite successful in matters of reducing carbon emissions. In efforts to raise rates of deforestation efforts, the forest code was updated in 2012 and now requires landowners to preserve 80% of the Amazon’s virgin forest, as well as protect the watersheds. Those that have violated the rules have increasingly received fines and even jailed in extreme cases. The rate of deforestation in the country has continued to fall since 2010, and is now just shy of meeting its international commitment to reduce Amazon deforestation by 80% from 1990 levels by …show more content…
In order for the world to be successful in implementing changes globally, the officials of Brazil believe that the exchange of ideas, plans and initiatives is the most effective step that the world can take to better mainstream sustainability goals into urban development to build climate resilience.
Brazil, currently facing a rapid economic growth and gradual decrease in carbon emission holds a double-edged sword that begs the question: must Brazil, home to the largest rainforest in the world, choose between economic growth and environmental conservation? This remains unanswered for Brazil as authorities try to achieve both in the current
The current national focus and priority of the country is on economic stabilization policies even though Brazil is the seventh-largest economy in the world. This may be due to the fact that Brazil has extreme inequalities in respect to income distribution. The per capita income places it between the richest and poorest countries in the world, concealing …show more content…
Brazil has been quite successful in matters of reducing carbon emissions. In efforts to raise rates of deforestation efforts, the forest code was updated in 2012 and now requires landowners to preserve 80% of the Amazon’s virgin forest, as well as protect the watersheds. Those that have violated the rules have increasingly received fines and even jailed in extreme cases. The rate of deforestation in the country has continued to fall since 2010, and is now just shy of meeting its international commitment to reduce Amazon deforestation by 80% from 1990 levels by …show more content…
In order for the world to be successful in implementing changes globally, the officials of Brazil believe that the exchange of ideas, plans and initiatives is the most effective step that the world can take to better mainstream sustainability goals into urban development to build climate resilience.
Brazil, currently facing a rapid economic growth and gradual decrease in carbon emission holds a double-edged sword that begs the question: must Brazil, home to the largest rainforest in the world, choose between economic growth and environmental conservation? This remains unanswered for Brazil as authorities try to achieve both in the current