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Light REDD: The Looming Tragedy of Carbon Markets Paying to Destroy Ancient Forests

EARTH MEANDERS

Using carbon funds, the world’s governments are poised to subsidize ancient forest logging, claiming it benefits the Earth’s climate. REDD’s potential support of “low impact” logging of ancient forests, and conversion of natural forests to tree farms, fails the climate, biodiversity and biosphere.

Plans to pay for rainforest protection using funds from carbon markets progressed [...]

Ecological Internet’s Campaign to End Ancient Forest Logging Gaining Support

Ecological Internet’s campaign to end ancient forest logging as the keystone response to the climate and biodiversity crises continues to gain both scientific credibility and prominence within the environmental movement. A new atlas from the UN Environment Programme shows not surprisingly that most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and carbon storage hotspots [ark] are found [...]

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