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Carbon emissions: dry forests may be easier to manage

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You discuss in an Editorial (Nature 462, 11; 2009) the promise of the emissions trading scheme REDD, whereby tropical countries will be rewarded for increased sequestration by forests. But it is important for negotiations to focus on the realities rather than on the ideal.

REDD countermeasures to tropical deforestation will affect food supplies and employment and will increase prices of forest products. They are likely to be contested by the powerful political forces that control logging, ranching, plantations and agricultural expansion in rainforests. It may therefore be premature to expect deforestation to be significantly reversed in the short term under REDD.

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    Margaret Skutsch & Michael K. McCall

  2. CSTM, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

    Jon C. Lovett

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See also Carbon emissions: the poorest forest dwellers could sufferFor more about limiting emissions, as the Copenhagen conference approaches, see pages 550, 555, 568 and 570 and http://go.nature.com/sRCuKV. Contributions may be submitted to correspondence@nature.com . Please see the Guide to Authors at http://go.nature.com/cMCHno . Science publishing issues are regularly featured at http://blogs.nature.com/nautilus .

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Skutsch, M., McCall, M. & Lovett, J. Carbon emissions: dry forests may be easier to manage. Nature 462, 567 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462567b

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