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Protecting Community Forests Can Be Major Tool in Climate Fight, Study Says

2014-07-24 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Expanding and strengthening the community forest rights of indigenous groups and rural residents can make a major contribution to sequestering carbon and reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation, according to a new report. The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Rights and Resources Initiative said that indigenous people and rural inhabitants in Latin America, Africa, and Asia have government-recognized rights to forests containing nearly 38 billion tons of carbon, equal to 29 times the annual...

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