Tree Hugging Harlotry

““People”:http://www.naturschatz.org/waldbild/aktion/smokey.gif cut down trees because they’re not worth anything standing,” Mountinho said by telephone from Rome. “Addressing deforestation is fundamental because it’s going to take 40 years to change global energy use.”

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil proposed Thursday a fund to compensate developing countries that slow the destruction of their rainforests, a move that could help lower emissions of gases blamed for rising world temperatures.

The Brazilian initiative, presented at a planning meeting for upcoming global climate talks in Rome, calls for creating a fund that countries could tap into if they could prove they had brought deforestation below rates of the 1990s.

“Once again Brazil is acting as a protagonist … in presenting an innovative proposal,” Environment Minister Marina Silva told Reuters at a conference in Sao Paulo.

Disagreements over how to address deforestation have hurt global efforts to cap emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and create markets for trading in carbon and credits.

Most emissions come from burning oil and coal, but deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent because trees store carbon dioxide when they grow and release it into the atmosphere when they die.

Global agreements allow credit for planting trees where forests have already been cleared but offer no incentives for preventing cutting in areas like Brazil’s Amazon, home to nearly a third of all species and a quarter of the earth’s fresh water.

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