Saving the Amazon with economics
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Achieving a Low Carbon Economy in the Amazon
We need to make forests worth more alive than dead. And that means changing the incentives, and that's what the leaf model is trying to do. But we also need to change those incentives throughout the economy so that it is more profitable to go after low carbon technologies. Changing the amazon into something that is valued and protected in its natural state,. not seen as a resource to be manotized through land clearing. Thene models of development in mn countries follow this exploitive, extractive roach. We need tounderstand that you can levers the bieconomy andn generate extraordinary returns but we need the value creation happening locally.
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