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The full impact of deforestation on global carbon emissions is only now (finally) becoming more widely acknowledged (about 20% of global emissions) and strategies envisioned to stop or at least slow the destruction. However, as a new report from The Nature Conservancy points out, land use changes causing degradation of the carbon storage capacity can not only lead to deforestation, but have a large global warming impact all…
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