
Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%
A new study in the journal Science Advances from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Queensland says that carbon impacts from the loss of intact tropical forests has been widely underreported. The study calculates new figures relating to intact tropical forest lost between 2000-2013 that show an increase of 626 percent in the long-term net carbon impacts through 2050.