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Amazon rainforest must be the focus of climate agreement

Amazon rainforest must be the focus of climate agreement

Many find the global discussion of deforestation a tired one, most especially with those who cannot directly relate to this particular environmental malaise. Much less is their capacity to correlate deforestation with worldwide carbon emissions. Fact is ‘deforestation accounts for 20%-25% of worldwide carbon emissions, whereas the global transportation [...]