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Smart-REDD plan targets causes of deforestation

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Strategy would focus on drivers of deforestation to reduce carbon emissions and improve human welfare.

A scheme to pay people in developing countries to curb carbon emissions from deforestation is plagued by 'leakage' — trees that aren't cut down in one forest are just cut down in another to provide people with the resources they would have foregone. But a study by an international team of scientists has come up with a way of dealing with leakage. Money set aside for conservation could be used to target the underlying drivers of deforestation – such as local people's need for food and fuel – so that fewer trees need to be cut down.

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  1. Fisher, B. et al. Nature Clim. Change doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE1119 (2011).

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  1. Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib
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Dickey Zakaib, G. Smart-REDD plan targets causes of deforestation. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.331

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