<p style="text-align: center"><strong>The IOTA foundation has <a href="https://youtu.be/OKleD8tf9Jo"> announced</a> their new carbon credits that will be used to secure transparency in an attempt to save the rainforest. </strong></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400">As the lungs of the planet, the Amazon rainforest alone produces 20% of the world’s oxygen by recycling CO2 emissions. It also acts as a giant conditioner fan in a warming planet and is home to more than half of all animal and plant species in the world. Without the rainforest, the world's climate would spin out of control. </span>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Why Urgent Measures Need to Be Taken to Save The Rainforest</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Amazon's most significant challenge today is deforestation, which is increasing every day as more investors look to develop the region. Deforestation causes 50000 life forms to go extinct every year.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400">IOTA's Director of Social Impact and Public Regulatory Affairs, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/juliemaupin?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400">Julie Maupin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, said that "To prevent a catastrophic development event due to decreases in the rainforests, the International Community has established carbon credits as an attempt to secure transparency when making environmentally-friendly purchases and investments. However, carbon credits in their current form are hard to track and easy to forge. With basic devices and novel technology, we now can certify carbon credits and avoid disasters and illegal deforestation. we can also empower the local community to know best how to preserve the most precious part of our planet’s ecosystem.” </span>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400">How the Carbon Credits Technology Works</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Simple sensors will be used to detect and monitor fires breaking out or chainsaws cutting trees. C02 emissions can be precisely measured and evaluated, and this highly valuable and sensitive data logged into IOTA Tangle. Responsive measures can then be acted upon in real-time rather than using inaccurate or outdated data. </span>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400">Effects of Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">In only 50 years, the number of indigenous people living in the Amazon has reduced from ten million to two hundred thousand. Every day, the world loses valuable knowledge collected over thousands of years by different generations, about medicinal plants. Global industrialization reaching the Amazon causes many local communities to relocate deeper into the <a href="http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/what.html">rainforest</a> or sell their lands for agricultural purposes. With <a href="https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/crypto/grantees-of-the-5th-outfit-of-iota-ecosystem-development-fund/">IOTA</a> Tangle technology being tamper-proof, the remaining local communities will be able to earn and sell carbon credits directly to those interested in authenticity in their efforts of protecting the rainforest.</span>

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<h2><a href="https://www.iota.org/research/meet-the-tangle"><span style="font-weight: 400">IOTA Tangle Technology</span></a></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400">Tangle</span><a href="https://www.iota.org/research/meet-the-tangle"> <span style="font-weight: 400">distributed ledger and protocol</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> uses neither blocks nor chains, but a stream of interlinked and individual transactions. These transactions are distributed and sorted across a decentralized network of participants. Tangle allows different branches of the DAG to eventually merge, resulting in much faster overall throughput. Tangle promotes data security by ensuring that a transaction has enough cumulative weight, which is safely included in the consensus to determine its validity.</span>

IOTA Tangle in Environmental Protection: Carbon Credits to Be Used to Secure The Rainforest 

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IOTA Tangle in Environmental Protection: Carbon Credits to Be Used to Secure The Rainforest

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