Current efforts to reduce global carbon emissions are overlooking one important component: biodiversity conservation. A new report from the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), which will be presented to the Doha climate talks next week, said that biodiversity is a key determinant of forest ability to sequester and store carbon. The study argued that forests do poorly in absorbing greenhouse gases if there is less biodiversity. Biodiversity, they said, involves the elaborate system of the forest’s health and thus without it would not function as well.
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