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Excluded from
receiving carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol, the «reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation» (REDD) mechanism found new life in 2005 as a result of efforts
by the Coalition for
Rainforest Nations, a group of tropical countries that seek to be paid for the carbon stored in their forests.
Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of
rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions
by 40 % from 2005 levels
by 2030, if it
receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.