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Strategies for reducing global warming include measures to reduce heat trapping emissions in the first place or absorbing emissions after the fact.
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Forest preservation
Slowing tropical deforestation is one of the most important ways to avert severe climate change, according to a new study published today in the journal Science. An international team of 11 top forest and climate researchers found that cutting deforestation rates in half by mid-century would amount to 12 percent of the emissions reductions needed to keep concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere at relatively safe levels.[1]
Tropical deforestation currently accounts for about 20 percent of worldwide global warming emissions. Dramatically scaling it back is projected to cost less than $20 per ton of carbon dioxide, making it a cost-effective complement to needed reductions in industrial emissions, according to the IPCC.[1]
Articles and resources
Available experts
Union of Concerned Scientists - Non-partisan, science-based non-profit working on, among other issues, reducing climate change.
Climate Program
LISA NURNBERGER, Press Secretary
202-331-5420, lnurnberger@ucsusa.org
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Reducing Tropical Deforestation is Feasible, Affordable, and Essential to Avoid Dangerous Global Warming, Top Experts Say," press release, Union of Concerned Scientists, May 10, 2007.
External resources
- "Tropical Deforestation and Global Warming" - Union of Concerned Scientists fact sheet.
