Can putting a price on nature help us care about it more?
The Climate Question
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Carbon Credits Are a Way to Reduce Carbon Omissions
At the recent u.N. Climate conference, countries agreed a real book to govern the trade of what are known as carbon credits. Countries which have forests that store more carbon than the nation produces can be paid by richer nations to offset a bit of their carbon omissions too. The idea is that everyone has to become carbon neutral. So how do we do that? We have to reduce omissions ourselves. But what happens if we can't do that fast enough? Should we be paying some one else to reduce if they can go faster than us? Let's pay those that can move the fastest. I want to take you somewhere. O, can you guess where this is?
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