The decrease in deforestation between 2016 and 2017 saved emissions equivalent to 610 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in the Brazilian Amazon and 170 million metric tons in the Cerrado, the forest savanna of Brazil, according to the Brazilian Government . However, in the midst of increasing deforestation in recent years, especially in the Amazon, experts expressed concern that this reduction in emissions does not hold.
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