CARBON FORESTS: Can the Free Market Slow Deforestation?
By Stephen Leahy IPS 28/10/2006 Tropical forests’ ability to store carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change makes them more valuable than alternative uses like pasture or lumber, and rich countries...
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By Stephen Leahy PARIS, Feb 2, 2010 (Tierramérica) The Amazon jungle “is very close to a tipping point,” and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65...
View ArticleBiggest Conservation Agreement Ever — 2X the Size of Germany
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 18, 2010 (IPS) The decades-long war in Canada’s northwoods appears to be over. Environmental groups and Canadian logging companies linked arms Tuesday morning and...
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