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By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbondioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.
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Additionally, approximately 13% of the world’s net carbondioxide. In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. stem from land cover change, such as deforestation, afforestation/reforestation, and wood harvesting. 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The report—prepared by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, the Sierra Club and Urgewald—examines commercial and investment bank financing, combining lending with underwriting debt and equity issuances. degrees Celsius (2.7 C above preindustrial levels.
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