DEPENDING on your point of view, market-based conservation or the generation of carbon offset credits through preserving natural carbon sinks such as forests and peatlands either looks like a very good or a very bad idea. A recent large-scale study by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), which drew on years of academic and field research across 120 countries, unfortunately tends to support the latter perspective.

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