13.09.2016 - Destructive nature of China’s soft commodities imports revealed
China’s imports of soft commodities are causing massive damage to the environment, the extent of which is revealed in a new report. For every US dollar of soft commodities imports, 7,467kg of embodied emissions are released into the atmosphere. This is well over three times the second-highest emitting import, mining and quarrying products. Deforestation is the second biggest culprit in carbon emissions after power generation. The report, by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership (CISL), the Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) and the Research Centre for Climate and Energy Finance (RCCEF – a Beijing-based organisation), reveals that 50% of illegal deforestation in the tropics is for agricultural purposes...............................................Full Article: Source
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