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Tropical forest resilience boosts protection schemes
2013-03-12 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Planet Earth: Tropical forests may be more resilient to climate change in the coming century than first thought, scientists say. The news could boost schemes designed to curb carbon emissions by discouraging deforestation, like the United Nation's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) programme, which rely on a stable forest to keep carbon locked out of the atmosphere. Such schemes would become more difficult to sell if the forests they are attempting to protect were likely to be...
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