Carbon credit prices too low to protect forests from rubber, study finds

Mongabay
Mar 8, 2018, 5:04 pm261 pts
Rubber plantations cover around 86,000 square kilometers (33,200 square miles) in Southeast Asia and conservationists worry they are posing an increasingly major threat to the region’s rainforests. A new study published recently in Nature Communications finds rubber profitability far exceeds carbon credit…

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