Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil’s Congress and government over the country’s core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff’s political fortunes or Brazil’s international reputation.
The opportunity costs of reducing carbon emissions in an Amazonian agroindustrial region: the Xingu River headwaters
The opportunity costs of reducing carbon emissions in an Amazonian agroindustrial region: the Xingu River headwaters
Negotiations are proceeding for a new international climate change regime that will compensate tropical nations that reduce their carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. In anticipation of this new mechanism designed to slow deforestation,...