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Saving the Amazon forest to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Governors of the nine states in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest are pushing the United States and other industrial nations to invest in projects under rules known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) currently being designed through the auspices of the United Nations. Under REDD, the U.S. government would auction emission allowances to [...]

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