Climate policies alone will not save Earth's most diverse tropical forests

Climate policies alone will not save Earth's most diverse tropical forests Leeds, UK (SPX) Jan 18, 2017 - A focus on policies to conserve tropical forests for their carbon storage value may imperil some of the world's most biologically rich tropical forests, says new research. Many countries have climate-protection policies designed to conserve tropical forests to keep their carbon locked up in trees. But the new study suggests these policies could miss some of the most diverse forests because there ... more

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