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Deforestation causes global warming

4 September 2006, Rome – Most people assume that global warming is caused by burning oil and gas. But in fact between 25 and 30 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere each year – 1.6 billion tonnes – is caused by deforestation.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000385/index.html

Now online: Unasylva 223

This non-thematic issue covers wide-ranging topics: reflections upon the 60th anniversary of forestry in FAO (D. Kneeland); challenges of renewing forest policies (N. Byron); integrating livestock production and protected area management (M. Ba Diao), organizational dimensions of decentralized forest management (E. Raufflet and P. Moctezuma Barragán), urban tree planting (M. Sreetheran et al.) and short-rotation forestry (L. Christersson and K. Verma), as well as a presentation of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (C. Saint-Laurent and J. Carle).