Carbon market encourages cutting trees

"The Kyoto treaty has focused on assigning carbon credits for countries and companies that plant new trees where forests have been destroyed due to development, logging or farming, the authors noted. There is no credit for countries that maintain already-abundant forestland, the study said.

"The countries that haven't really been the target of deforestation have nothing to sell because they haven't deforested anything," said Gustavo Fonseca, an author of the study. "So that creates a perverse incentive for them to actually start deforesting, so that in the future, they might be allowed to cap-and-trade.""

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