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So many ways – big and small – to capture carbon
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1010" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/04/so-many-ways-big-and-small-to-capture-carbon" target="_blank"><strong>So many ways – big and small – to capture carbon - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Readers and heads of environmental organisations respond to a call to rewild on a massive scale </strong></p><p></p><p>George Monbiot (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/natural-world-climate-catastrophe-rewilding" target="_blank">The natural world can help save us from climate chaos</a>, 3 April), Greta Thunberg and other signatories (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/03/a-natural-solution-to-the-climate-disaster" target="_blank">Letters</a>, 3 April) are right. Nature can provide effective options to help tackle climate change. Often there is no need for complicated, expensive and unproven technology. As we know from our work in such countries as Bhutan and Costa Rica, some governments are embracing nature-based solutions where natural forests are managed for their key role in storing carbon and regulating water for clean, green hydropower. Policies and investment need to work with local people and focus on linking nature to infrastructure to help avoid catastrophic climate change, protect biodiversity and cut emissions. The real challenge is to align the politics of change to the actions that are needed. While some countries are doing the right thing, in other places (such as Brazil) the politics is going backwards in deeply troubling ways. </p><p></p><p>The international community needs to act to support local livelihoods and enable communities to be good stewards of the natural world. Our lives depend on it.</p><p><strong>Andrew Norton</strong></p><p><em>Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1010, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/04/so-many-ways-big-and-small-to-capture-carbon'][B]So many ways – big and small – to capture carbon - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]Readers and heads of environmental organisations respond to a call to rewild on a massive scale [/B] George Monbiot ([URL='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/natural-world-climate-catastrophe-rewilding']The natural world can help save us from climate chaos[/URL], 3 April), Greta Thunberg and other signatories ([URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/03/a-natural-solution-to-the-climate-disaster']Letters[/URL], 3 April) are right. Nature can provide effective options to help tackle climate change. Often there is no need for complicated, expensive and unproven technology. As we know from our work in such countries as Bhutan and Costa Rica, some governments are embracing nature-based solutions where natural forests are managed for their key role in storing carbon and regulating water for clean, green hydropower. Policies and investment need to work with local people and focus on linking nature to infrastructure to help avoid catastrophic climate change, protect biodiversity and cut emissions. The real challenge is to align the politics of change to the actions that are needed. While some countries are doing the right thing, in other places (such as Brazil) the politics is going backwards in deeply troubling ways. The international community needs to act to support local livelihoods and enable communities to be good stewards of the natural world. Our lives depend on it. [B]Andrew Norton[/B] [I]Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)[/I] [/QUOTE]
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