SUCCESS STORY

摘要

Amid gloomy assessments of the scant progress made in curbing carbon emissions worldwide, there is encouraging news: deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has slowed. Last year, it dropped to 7,464 square kilometres, down 73% from a 2003/2004 peak of 27,423 square kilometres (see chart).rnBrazil was initially opposed to developed nations buying rainforest credits to offset their emissions instead of reducing them, so it crafted its own forest-carbon policy.