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A win-win-win-win scenario
Carbon offsets that go to developing world forests rule |
biodiversivist |
02 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Here's an uplifting article by Rhett Butler over at Mongabay. It enables my personal eco-fantasy. It's titled, Avoided deforestation could help fight third world poverty under global warming pact. $43 billion could flow into developing countries: When trees are cut greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere -- roughly 20 percent of annual emissions of such heat-trapping gases result from deforestation and forest degradation. Avoided deforestation is the concep ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, biodiversity, deforestation, Kyoto Protocol, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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