Telegraph: Some 7,008 square kilometres of trees were cut down in the year to July, 45.7 per cent down on the previous year’s figure and a quarter of the 2004 level, according to government figures. The number was the lowest annual figure since 1988 when Brazil started measuring annual deforestation. It is a hugely significant figure because tropical deforestation accounts for more carbon dioxide emissions than all the emissions from cars, planes, boats and planes combined. "The new …