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Amazon Climate Concerns

COP31 climate talks in Antalya focus on fragmented Latin American alliances, per Dialogue Earth.

European complaints against meat-packer JBS allege illegal Amazon deforestation links, YourBasin reports.

Rondônia's deforestation trends from 1975-2024 show satellite imagery changes, Britannica notes.

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01dialoguedialogue.earth · 5 NovCOP31: Latin America’s fragmented climate alliances head to Antalya 02yourbasinyourbasin.com · 5 NovMeat-packer JBS faces complaints filed in Europe over alleged links to illegal Amazon deforestation 03britannicabritannica.com · 2 NovDeforestation in Rondônia, Brazil, 1975–2024 | Satellite Image Slideshow 04britannicabritannica.com · 5 NovRondônia

Open data on the globe —

check it yourself
Forest lost since 2001
about 2,395 km² of tree cover lost within ~150 km
667 km² of it in 2019–2023 · worst year 2016 (701 km²)
tree cover ≥30% · estimate from map tiles
“About 2,395 square kilometres of forest around here have been cleared or burned since 2001; the worst year was 2016.”
Hansen/UMD Global Forest Change v1.11 via Global Forest Watch (CC BY 4.0) · Open the same data on globalforestwatch.org →

Why these floors —

E14 · E7 · E11 · E10

E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E14, global; the pressure it names: global climate summit. Its words also reach E7 ecosystems, E11 organizations and E10 institutions.

Here it is a dynamic between ecosystems, organizations and institutions: COP31 climate talks, Amazon deforestation and deforestation trends (E7 ecosystems), with meat-packer JBS (E11 organizations), and European complaints (E10 institutions).

E0 fieldsE7 ecosystemsE14 global
E14 Globalmain floor

The floor of the planet acting as one.

E7 Ecosystems

The floor of weather and living systems. In this briefing: COP31 climate talks, Amazon deforestation, deforestation trends.

E11 Organizations

The floor of companies and infrastructure. In this briefing: meat-packer JBS.

E10 Institutions

The floor of money and rules. In this briefing: European complaints.

Read The Arena, the E0–E14 stack →

Keep going —

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Watch 24/701E14 LiveThe planet, narrated as the news arrives.Interactive tool02The E14 ExplorerOpen the globe over Amazon basin.Flagship essay03The View From E14Why look at the news from one floor above the planet.The stack04The ArenaThe fifteen floors, E0 to E14, every story is placed on.AI companion05Chat with PrometheusAsk what a story has to do with emergence.Foundations06EmergenceHow order arises, unbidden, from simpler parts.
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