Can putting a price on nature help us care about it more?
The Climate Question
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How Do You Calculate Carbon Dioxide
There is now an international agreement for the scheme he helpes set up, red plus. It's designed to alloy countries to pay each other to help fight climate change by keeping trees alive. So how does it work? I mean, you look at a tree. How do you calculate how much carbon is stored in it,.How much it's worth, how much of a job it's doing? You have to learn different tree species and their densities. Write a hard wood basically pulls in more carbon than a soft wood. so we come up with these estimates. Again, they are only estimates. And it entails scientists running bout and measuring trees - but once you get down cause yor
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