Climate Adaptation
‘Catastrophic’ Loss of Amazon Forest Looms, Suzano CEO Warns
- Effects of mass killings of trees could take years to be felt
- Rate of destruction has jumped the most in over a decade
Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
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There are few corporate chiefs in Brazil more outspoken on the environment than Walter Schalka, the head of the world’s largest producer of wood pulp. And he has a dire prediction for the Brazilian Amazon: Deforestation will accelerate this year.
“It’s going to be catastrophic,” Schalka, chief executive officer of Suzano SA, said in an interview in New York. “It’s going to be even worse than last year.”