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Science 9 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5472, pp. 1763 - 1764
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5472.1763
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Perspectives

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY:
Counting the Cost of Deforestation

Robert Bonnie, Stephan Schwartzman, Michael Oppenheimer, Janine Bloomfield

To halt the dramatic alteration in our climate, there must be a reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases. As Bonnie and colleagues discuss in their Perspective, conservation of forests will increase carbon sequestration and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. In this issue, a cost-benefit analysis by Kremen et al. demonstrates the benefits of forest conservation on a local and global scale.

The authors are with Environmental Defense, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA. E-mail: Robert_Bonnie{at}environmentaldefense.org

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