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The Rich-Country Roadmap to Halting Deforestation, Enabling Development and Meeting Climate Commitments (Devex)

March 21, 2017

From the op-ed:

An area of tropical forest the size of Austria is cleared every year, releasing into the atmosphere vast amounts of carbon previously locked up in trees and soils. The good news is that dozens of developing countries have committed to reduce deforestation as part of their contributions to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. But as described in our new book, Why Forests? Why Now?, those efforts need support from rich countries to align incentives for governments and private companies alike to turn away from deforestation-as-usual.

Read the full op-ed here