Paying To Save Tropical Forests Could Be A Way To Reduce Global Carbon Emissions
Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 23:21
in Earth & Climate
Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests. It would take about that much money to put an end to a tenth of the tropical deforestation in the world, one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, researchers estimate.