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In cutting deforestation, Brazil leads world in reducing emissions
2014-06-05 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazil's success in reducing deforestation in the world's largest rainforest has been much heralded, but progress may stall unless farmers, ranchers and other land users in the region are provided incentives to further improve the environmental sustainability of their operations, argues a study published this week in the journal Science. The paper, co-authored by an international team of researchers led by Daniel Nepstad of the San Francisco-based Earth Innovation Institute, starts with a detailed...
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