Thursday, June 28, 2012

Colombia eyes greenhouse gas cuts through forest protection

Reuters: Colombia plans to have in place 10 months from now a new system to measure deforestation, which it hopes will drastically improve its ability to establish a national policy to reduce emissions from deforestation (REDD), the country's environmental minister said. Tropical forests cover one-third of the Andean country and according to Colombia's latest greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, emissions from land-use change shot up 132 percent from 1990 to 2004, the largest increase in all the country's sectors....

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-colombia-emissions-forest-idUSBRE85R0CA20120628?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

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