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Action to reduce deforestation:
* The loss of natural forests around the world contributes more to global emissions each year than the transport sector. Curbing deforestation is a highly cost-effective way to reduce emissions; large-scale international pilot programmes to explore the best ways to do this should get underway very quickly.
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So which site is correct.
First one claims a -2.2 % from 1990-2000.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator4.htm
The second one claims -0.2% from 1990-2000 (same report).
http://www.mongabay.com/deforestation_cover.htm
The actual UN report says -0.2.
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y7581E....htm#TopOfPage
So the first site is the Earth Policy Institute, second one is something called MongaBay. Third is the UN report.
I just do not trust scientists on this topic until they quit scaremongering it to death. For a -0.2 deforestation rate over a decade of the WORST global warming in the history of the planet to make it as a bullet item, smacks of scaremongering, right along with throwing out a 25% of GDP number.
They are going to have to show more solid data for this guy to support it as they've been crying wolf and (THE SKY IS FALLING) for decades now.