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Forests, Farms, and the Global Carbon Sink: How Developing Countries Put Forests Conservation on the Climate Agenda
Nearly a quarter of all the greenhouse gases emitted by man come from the way we manage our forests, farms, and fields, yet the Kyoto Protocol offered little in the way of tools for financing forest conservation. That began to change when developing countries introduced the concept of REDD+ in 2005, at year-end climate talks in Montreal. Here's our latest installment in the intermittent series, "Forests, Farms, and the Global Carbon Sink".
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