Now REDD threatens to reverse this progress by launching governments on a carbon-rush for the woods, say champions for indigenous folk.
"It's a high-carbon sugar rush and a recipe for political grief.
The shrinking biocapacity of our planet (its ability to provide a growing and more prosperous population, cheap energy, fresh water, and food, and to absorb our increasing carbon waste) is rushing in on us like a freight train.
In fact, across the UK, rush-hour carbon adds up to 29.7 million tonnes of CO2.Andif that's not making you cough and splutter already, that's the same as 280,000 lorries driving 100,000km each year.
Congress isn't rushing to pass carbon permit legislation, but if it does enact a climate change bill, Representative Michael Doyle, a Democrat from the Pittsburgh area, wants a multiyear exemption for steel.
Traffic is heavy today, and your company elected to pick up a few carbon credits through everyone missing the rush hour.
Friday nights, Dacre would rush to grab the carbon-copy black out of his father's briefcase.
A warning has been issued to campers after a family was rushed to hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning in Dumfries and Galloway.
