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| Trading in Ecosystem Services - UNFCCC GCP Side Event |
"Forests fall because they are worth more dead than alive - and that's what markets have to change" said Andrew Mitchell, Director of the Global Canopy Programme at a mind stretching side event on developing future markets for forest ecosystem services. These are not services that have previously been considered as tradable but include the 20 billion tonnes of moisture released to the atmosphere by the Amazon's trees or the billion dollar impacts of haze emitted when peat forests are burned in Asia. Forests store twice as much carbon as is found in the entire atmosphere and this is released when they are burnt during deforestation.
07-12-2007
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| "The Forests Now Declaration is a landmark in environmental conservation, as it highlights a crucial link between forests and our deteriorating climate. As the declaration clearly shows, it is in our best interest to conserve forests – and to do it now."
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Professor Bill Laurance, Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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