Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change

Recent climate talks in Copenhagen reaffirmed the crucial role of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Creating and strengthening indigenous lands and other protected areas represents an effective, practical, and immediate REDD strategy that addresses both biodiversity and climate crises at once.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Political Science, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000331PMID 20305712PMCID 2838743
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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