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The science is clear: Intact forests—especially tropical forests—are crucial to fighting climate change.

Forests are one of the best carbon-capture technologies on Earth—and the most cost-efficient. As they grow, trees capture carbon dioxide, keeping it from seeping into the atmosphere and accelerating global heating.

But when we cut down forests, we are not only losing an amazing carbon-storage tool. We’re also creating emissions, since the felled trees release into the atmosphere all the carbon they’d been storing. What the deforesters do with those trees—either leaving them to rot on the forest floor or burning them—creates further emissions. All told, deforestation causes about 10 percent of worldwide emissions.

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