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Brazil sets final rules for forest use, allows tradable credits
2014-05-07 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Brazilian government published a final set of regulations on the use of its forests on Tuesday that could push farmers to restore a huge amount of illegally cleared native vegetation and encourage the use of "tradeable forest credits" to help protect the environment. The new rules come two years after the approval of a law, known as the Forest Code, that was designed to safeguard the country's forests, although some environmentalists still think it is too timid to do the job. Under the...
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