Brazil scores winning goal on carbon emissions
20 Jun 2014

By TIM RADFORD.- Brazil might or might not win the World Cup, but it so far seems a clear winner in the race to reduce carbon emissions – having stopped 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere during the past decade.
A team of economists and scientists report in Science that Brazil has achieved this, since 2004, by simply not cutting down 86,000 square kilometres of rainforest.
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