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428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

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How Has Offsets Worked in Practice?

In some sense, clement changes a superborn economics problem in that it's very easy to figure out what to do globally. That is, you should set a price on carbon, and then you should fund our end in green energy. Those turn out to be pretty politically challenging to do. In the u.S., what we've been doing are kind of mandate style policies that aim for reductions in particular places in the economy....

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