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Deforestation, wetlands loss in Brazil and Indonesia generated 45b tons of CO2 in 20 years
2013-02-22 03:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a global set of statistics on carbon emissions from deforestation, agriculture and other forms of land use for the 1990-2010 period. The dataset, which is part of the FAO's database of statistics known as FAOSTAT, is based on FAO estimates of forest biomass, deforestation, and crop cover. The data is listed by country and region. Unsurprisingly, the FAOSTAT GHG dataset shows that high deforestation countries generated the...
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