On February 21, 2017 Winrock International announced in a press release that its scientists had published groundbreaking research on greenhouse gas emissions from a previously underestimated source – forest degradation in tropical countries. The research was published in the journal Carbon Balance and Management in an article entitled, “Greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forest degradation: an underestimated source.” The new study “shows that in 74 tropical countries the amount of carbon released as a result of forest degradation is equivalent to 4.3 percent of total global emissions and almost five times greater than the emissions from global aviation.”
You may read the press release on the Winrock International internet site.
You may read the article here.