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Science 17 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5840, p. 902
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141361
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ENVIRONMENT:
Carbon Mitigation by Biofuels or by Saving and Restoring Forests?

Renton Righelato1* and Dominick V. Spracklen2

The carbon sequestered by restoring forests is greater than the emissions avoided by the use of the liquid biofuels.

1R. Righelato, World Land Trust, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8AB

2D. V. Spracklen, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: renton{at}worldlandtrust.org

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