Earth Report - REDD Alert

Could carbon become the developing world's new cash crop? Tropical forests store a quarter of the earths carbon and suck in 15 per cent of all the CO2 we emit each year. A new international concept called REDD, aims to make tropical forests more valuable as living, breathing ecosystems than if they are cleared for farmland. Prototype REDD projects are now getting underway, to test out how best to make this complex scheme work. Earth Report travels to the vast rainforests of Africas Congo Basin, to find out if forests can realistically pay their way as global carbon stores and who exactly will benefit.
With thanks to UN REDD Programme.

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[gulfside2000]

There should be some kind of financial incentive for all these countries to keep their forests pristine and maybe even expand them to reverse some of the damage. I am not sure exactly what that should be, but the rest of the world should come up with something.

[mitrataj]

where is the rest of it?

[FUl0VECk]

Simply amazing

[violinizcidslife]

omg me neither..

[pipuk3]

i dont even remember subscribing to this...