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1. The accelerating destruction of the rainforests is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation cause much greater damage than planes, automobiles and even factories.

2. The uncontrolled destruction of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouse gases according to a report published by the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.

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3. Figures show that deforestation accounts for up to 25 per cent of global emissions of heat-trapping gases, while transport and industry account for 14 per cent each; and aviation makes up only 3 per cent of the total.

4.Scientists say one day’s deforestation is equivalent to the carbon footprint of eight million people flying to New York. Reducing those catastrophic emissions can be achieved most quickly and most cheaply by slowing the destruction in Brazil, Indonesia, the Congo and elsewhere.

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5. No new technology is needed, says the GCP, just the political will and a system of enforcement and incentives that makes the trees worth more to governments and individuals standing than felled.

6. Most people think of forests only in terms of the CO2 they absorb. The rainforests of the Amazon, the Congo basin and Indonesia are thought of as the lungs of the planet. But the destruction of those forests will in the next four years alone pump more CO2 into the atmosphere than every flight in the history of aviation to at least 2025.

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7. Indonesia became the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world last week. Following close behind is Brazil. Neither nation has heavy industry on a comparable scale with the EU, India or Russia and yet they emit more heat-trapping gasses than all other countries, except the United States and China. What both countries do have in common is tropical forest that is being cut and burned.

8. According to the figures from 2003, two billion tons of CO2 enters the atmosphere every year from deforestation. That destruction amounts to an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland.

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9. International demand has driven intensive agriculture, logging and ranching, which have proved an unstoppable force for deforestation; conservation has been no match for commerce.

10. Forestry experts and policy makers want to put deforestation on top of the agenda for the UN climate summit in Bali, Indonesia, this year. Papua New Guinea, among the world’s poorest nations, last year declared it would have no choice but to continue deforestation unless it was given financial incentives to do otherwise.

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11. Richer nations already recognise the value of uncultivated land. The EU, for example, offers e200 per hectare (10000m2) to its farmers to leave their land unused.

12. And yet there is no agreement on placing a value on the vastly more valuable land in developing countries. More than 50 per cent of the life on Earth is in tropical forests, which cover less than 7 per cent of the planet’s surface. Forests are also home to 1.6 billion of the world’s poorest people who rely on them for subsistence.

13. Putting a price on the carbon these vital forests contain is the only way to slow their destruction.

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1. The percentage of global greenhouse gases caused by deforestation.

2. The percentage of global greenhouse gases caused by transport and industry.

3. The number of people who would produce the same amount of CO2 by flying from the UK to New York as one day of deforestation.

4. The two countries which emit the largest amount of greenhouse gases.

5. The number of tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere every year from deforestation.

6. The percentage of life on Earth present in tropical forests.

7. The amount of the Earth’s surface covered by tropical forests.

8. The number of people dependent on the tropical forests for food.