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Why Amazon deforestation climbing?
2013-11-17 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The 28 percent increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over last year that was reported this week is bad news, but it is not surprising. It is bad news because the decline in deforestation since 2005 has given us the single largest contribution to climate change mitigation on the planet, far surpassing the reductions in emissions achieved by any Annex 1 country under the Kyoto Protocol [1]. Brazils achievement is particularly noteworthy because it did not come at the expense of agricultural...
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