At the beginning of May, a new study revealed that the top 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global warming. On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, another piece of news came out, indicating a concerning situation for our planet. In 2024, 6.7 million hectares of tropical forest were lost, as reported in a report from the Global Forest Watch, coordinated by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the University of Maryland. This area is roughly the size of Panama.
A loss that equals « 18 football fields per minute »
What explains such deforestation?Fires are primarily to blame. While the loss of primary tropical forest has been studied since 2022, this is the first time that fire has emerged as the main cause, surpassing agriculture. “This level of forest destruction is completely unprecedented in over 20 years of data. It’s a global red alert,” laments Elizabeth Goldman, coordinator of Global Forest Watch. Between 2023 and 2024, there has been an 80% increase, which amounts to a loss equivalent to 18 football fields per minute,” she elaborates. These fires have been caused both by humans, aiming to cultivate the land, and by extreme weather conditions . » encountered in 2024, the hottest year ever recorded.
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Deforestation That Causes Billions of Tons of CO2 Emissions
The destruction of forests leads to significant greenhouse gas emissions, as it...Their role is to absorb CO2. In this case, 3.1 billion tons of CO2 would have been emitted last year. Among the countries most affected by deforestation are Brazil, Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, and also Peru.
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