Ecuador's Plan To Save The Amazon And Fight Climate Change--The Yasuní-ITT Initiative
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 18:22
in Earth & Climate
The Ecuadorian government has devised a novel, albeit idealistic, plan to prevent gas and oil development in the Yasuní National Park in hopes of protecting biodiversity and combating climate change. The proposal, known as the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, would leave untouched nearlyone billion barrels of oil that lie beneath the national Park in Ecuador. read more