Adopt a carbon tax to protect tropical forests
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nature 12 February 2020 Authors: Edward B. Barbier, Ricardo Lozano, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez & Sebastian Troëng [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Deforestation must be stopped in tropical countries to tackle the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss. The vast majority of Earth’s species are in the tropics; forests there have taken in much of the carbon added to the atmosphere…