Brazil's Environmentally Effective Use of Electricity

The river is diverted and the road is laid to make space for these big dams. Waterways and waterways are constructed to allow ships and boats to pass in order to collect water. Concrete blocks straddle the river and supply 20% of the world's freshwater. These dams will occupy more than 6,470 square kilometers of forests and fields, almost equivalent to the area of ​​6 Hong Kong. Furthermore, as the rainforest is flooded, space for the dam is created in the dam, the water stump suddenly releases carbon dioxide, and the degraded vegetation releases methane. carbon dioxide

It is often said that Brazil is at the forefront of establishing sound environmental laws. I thought of several important environmental laws, including the constitution itself. There are many regulations and regulations concerning the environment. However, the effectiveness of implementing these rules and regulations is often suspected. An obvious example of environmental breaches is related to illegal deforestation in the Amazon region of Brazil. Based on the use of geoprocessing tools to monitor public policy and deforestation adopted since 2004, the country succeeded in reducing Amazon's deforestation rate to 500,000 hectares annually. Compared to the average for the period from 1996 to 2005, this ratio has stabilized after declining 70% in the past few years in the past 4 years (INPE, 2015). However, the monitoring tool has not reached the legal level distinguishing such deforestation, how much it is not legal

Law enforcement agency Brazil has many laws in its book that in theory slow Amazon's deforestation and encourage the sustainable use of forest resources. The problem is that the IBAMA funds of the Brazilian Environmental Protection Agency are very inadequate - in 2003 the total budget for environmental protection in Brazil was $ 9.5 million. $ 9.5 million in the world's largest tropical wilderness, the fifth largest country on Earth (Australia, Spain, Germany total)

For a long time, Brazil has relied on Amazon's huge resources to generate electricity. Currently, over 70% of the country's electricity is generated by hydroelectric power generation. As a result, the proportion of Brazilian electricity sector to carbon emissions is very low. However, reliance on this hydroelectric power generation causes various problems. The government must force local indigenous people resettled. In addition, excessive dam construction can disturb the natural flow of the river. This affects the ecosystem supported by the river.