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Indigenous people demand greater say in using forests to fight global warming

Forest conservation can fight climate change and poverty

Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Prince Charles says hedge funds could save rainforests

Old growth forests are giant carbon sinks, helping offset emissions

Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

Malaysia’s rainforest logging plan may proceed despite risk to water supplies

STRI goes carbon neutral as Panama indigenous community to see carbon payments from forest conservation

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Indonesia’s Riau bans destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil

Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

Dell becomes carbon neutral by saving endangered lemurs

Australia’s forests contain three times the expected carbon

Private equity firm to sell biodiversity offsets from rainforest conservation

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests

Rainforest conservation could offset 500m tons of CO2 emissions at $2/ton

New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

REDD could trigger bias in conservation funding towards carbon-rich ecosystems

Forestry will play a critical role in slowing global warming

Unlocking the potential of forests to limit climate change

Madagascar signs big carbon deal to fund rainforest conservation

Guiana Shield forests help preserve biodiversity and climate

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests disappearing faster than thought

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Greenpeace says carbon fund will save forests and climate

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