Here’s a great way to visualize the huge potential of forest conservation and restoration as ‘natural climate solutions’

Mongabay
Dec 6, 2017, 2:42 pm403 pts
Recent research found that 20 different “natural climate solutions” have the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 23.8 billion metric tons every year — and that nearly half of that potential, or some 11.3 billion metric tons of emissions, represent what the study’s authors…

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