Sentences with phrase «keeping tropical rain forests»
WASHINGTON DC, December 1, 2008 — Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.
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Most plants in tropical rain forests keep their leaves all year, gradually replacing them as they fall with age.
Large amounts of carbon are currently locked in the vast biomass of the tropical rain forests, and so kept out of the atmosphere.
At its most basic level, REDD + enables rich, industrialized countries such as Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom to pay forested tropical countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru and others to keep their rain forests standing, rather than log them to make way for cattle ranches or other agricultural purposes.