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 Stories About: carbon sequestration AND climate AND climate change mitigation AND deforestation AND greenhouse-gas emissions AND rainforests
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Low-hanging fruit
Dirt cheap carbon |
biodiversivist |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Great interview over on Mongabay with Daniel Nepstad, head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program. When it comes to immediate carbon emissions reductions, the biggest bang for the buck is to stop deforestation of the tropics. This revelation would have much less relevance if there were not also a mechanism envisioned to achieve it called the RED initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation). As with anything, the concept has its critics. In my unqu ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics) |
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