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• Don’t blame the trees! Saving forests is still the best way to save the planet

  20-12-2023 19:28
  The smokescreen generated by recent carbon-offset setbacks should not blind us to the simple truth that we must protect our intact forests and bring back those we have lostSome have recently questioned whether forests really are the climate solution they have long been held to be. This is because some emit great quantities of carbon, while the markets set up to finance them have stumbled. But there is no pathway to a livable climate without saving our intact forests, regrowing some, and finding
  
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• ‘We make magic here’: the Amazon community creating a future out of chocolate

  20-12-2023 13:00
  An artisanal cacao business and an agroforestry project are transforming the lives of women and preserving precious forestOn the banks of the River Acará in the Brazilian Amazon, about 50km (31 miles) south of the city of Belém, the rich smell of melted chocolate wafts out from a boatyard turned small factory. “We make magic here,” says Diana Gemaque, 33, a member of the Cacao Guardians chocolate cooperative in the riverside community of Acará-Açu.In 2021,
  
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