Adopt a carbon tax to protect tropical forests
Nature 12 February 2020 Authors: Edward B. Barbier, Ricardo Lozano, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez & Sebastian Troëng Deforestation must be stopped in tropical countries to tackle the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss. The vast majority of Earth’s species are in the tropics; forests there have taken in much of the carbon added to the atmosphere by…