"Driven largely by the expansion of farm land to meet increasing global demand for products such as soya bean, over 810,000 km² of forest in the Amazon has been cleared – an area nearly as big as Norway and Sweden combined. Deforestation is not only a tragedy for biodiversity, it also releases huge quantities of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere. Despite a glimmer of hope in the early 2010s, when deforestation rates plummeted to an all-time low, forest loss is once again on the rise."

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"Forests purchased by major corporations in an effort to offset their carbon emission are burning as the United States experiences a record wildfire year – and it’s a major problem that needs reassessing, experts say."

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National Infrastructure Commission (2021): Engineered greenhouse gas removals. London.

"Engineered greenhouse gas removals will become a major new infrastructure sector for the UK over the coming decades. The UK needs engineered removals to offset its hardest to abate emissions and achieve net zero. And it needs to act now."

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"We are the world’s first aggregated data source for carbon offsetting."

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