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Forest Rights Offer Major Opportunity to Counter Climate Change
2014-07-23 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The international community is failing to take advantage of a potent opportunity to counter climate change by strengthening local land tenure rights and laws worldwide, new data suggests. In what researchers say is the most detailed study on the issue to date, new analysis suggests that in areas formally overseen by local communities, deforestation rates are dozens to hundreds of times lower than in areas overseen by governments or private entities. Anywhere from 10 to 20 percent of worldwide...
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