Forest protection and carbon dioxide stored in biomass: New study confirms protected forests preserve equivalent to one year of global fossil fuel emissions through avoided emissions

A study has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their above-ground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas.

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