New Greenpeace briefing explains why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions | redd... - 0 views
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Del Birmingham on 21 Nov 13The briefing is a very clear explanation of the fundamental difference in terms of climate change between the carbon stored in fossil fuels and the carbon stored in trees. REDD as a carbon trading mechanism assumes that a ton of carbon not released from forests is the same in terms of the climate as ton of carbon emitted by burning fossil fuels. As Greenpeace explains, this assumption is wrong.