California joins effort to fight global warming by saving
rainforests November 19, 2008 In an agreement signed yesterday
at a climate change conference in Beverly Hills, California,
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged financial assistance and
technical support to help reduce deforestation in Brazil and
Indonesia. The Memorandum of Understanding commits the
California, Illinois and Wisconsin to work with the governors of
six states and provinces within Indonesia and Brazil to help
slow and stop tropical deforestation, a source of roughly 20
percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The governors
include Governor Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva of Amapa, Brazil;
Governor Eduardo Braga of Amazonas, Brazil; Governor Blario
Maggi of Mato Grosso, Brazil; Governor Ana Júla de Vasconcelos
Carepa of Para, Brazil; Governor Yusof Irwandi of Aceh,
Indonesia; and Governor Barnamas Suebu of Papua, Indonesia.
"Tropical deforestation accounts for 20 percent of all human-
caused carbon emissions in the world, and the governo