Coming out of Bali are details on a new plan to address the largest overlooked contributor to climate change – the destruction of forests. Right now, developing countries earn more from cutting forests than from keeping them standing. This plan looks to establish a financial value for the carbon stored in standing forests.
What Will it Take for Countries to Stop Deforestation?
What Will it Take for Countries to Stop Deforestation?
(via www.nature.org)
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would you like that in Euros, Yuan, or gold?
what motivates people more than anything? MONEY!!!
so, pay these countries for their forest's environmental services that all of us enjoy. and the tax should be progressive so that rich countries that can pay more, do pay more. (and supposedly have "more" to lose)
cheers.
-= yo yo! =-