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Quantifying climate benefits from World Heritage forests
- Source: World Heritage Review, Volume 2021, Issue 100, Feb 2022, p. 20 - 27
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- 16 Feb 2022
Abstract
In combatting climate change, society must pull hard on two planet-size levers: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. Many economic sectors can mitigate climate change only through the first of those, but with forests we can work both levers at once. We can—and indeed must— simultaneously reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and maintain or increase the carbon captured by forests. This is the promise of forests in combatting climate change.
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