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In this week’s issue of Nature: Brazil hopes to lead developing nations by example

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

In this week’s Nature (subscription required), Jeff Tollefson describes how Brazil is talking big greenhouse gas reductions—possibly as much as 40% by 2020:

• 2/3 coming from reducing deforestation by 80%.
• 1/3 coming from the energy, agriculture, and reforestation.
• Brazil is also warming up to the idea that foreign countries can offset their greenhouse gas emissions by investing in forest conservation.

One outstanding question is how forest conservation projects and carbon markets like R.E.D.D (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries) might affect indigenous land rights.

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