Tropical forests covering an area nearly the size of India are set to be destroyed in the next 35 years, a faster rate of deforestation than previously thought, warns a new study released by Center for Global Development
An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one-sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the “planetary carbon budget”), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/future-forests-emissions-tropical-deforestation-and-without-carbon-price-2016%E2%80%932050
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/tropical deforestation carbon price.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jonah-busch
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jens-engelmann
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/center-global-development
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tropical-forests
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use