Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

Mongabay
Feb 5, 2018, 12:41 pm163 pts
A new study finds that putting a price on carbon could drastically reduce the amount of deforestation in the tropics by 2050: $20 per metric ton (about $18/short ton) could diminish deforestation by nearly 16 percent and the associated burst of carbon released into the atmosphere by nearly 25 percent. In…

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