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Article: Accounting error in climate treaties could lead to more deforestation.
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- November 15, 2009
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A team of 13 prominent scientists and land-use experts has identified an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy that could, if uncorrected, undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by encouraging deforestation.
The error, reported in the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Science, involves an issue that is at the heart of ongoing discussions about how biofuels and land use change will be treated under the global climate treaty nations are developing for the December summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.
"The error is serious, but readily fixable," said Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar and lecturer in public and international ...