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• The best weekly collection of Western environmental news • An at-a-glance look at our latest news and analysis Why does this box keep popping up? This box was designed to only appear once. The Website the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See. Don't Flush Tiger Forests. 350.org. Can saving the Amazon save the planet? LIMA, Peru — International negotiators are closing in on a new solution for combating climate change — and saving the world’s remaining forests. Some 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions now come from deforestation, especially in the lush, green band of tropical rainforest that circles the earth. That is more than from global transport. So representatives from member states involved in UN climate negotiations are attempting to hammer out a way to make it more profitable to protect forests than destroy them.
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