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Land-use protection for climate change mitigation

  • 17/11/2014
  • Nature Climate Change

Land-use change, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, is a massive source of carbon emissions and contributes substantially to global warming. Therefore, mechanisms that aim

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