Glasgow Climate Negotiators Gear Up for Fight Over Trading Trees
Delegates will once again try to hash out the rules for a UN-run carbon offsets market as corporate demand for the credits booms
Illustration by Kati Szilágyi
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Growing up on the southern edge of the Brazilian rainforest, José Pinheiro Borges learned to watch out for loggers eyeing the trees around his village. Now he’s paid to keep his little patch of forest in tact. That scenario, if repeated across the Amazon, can help cool the planet by preserving one of the largest natural engines for sucking up carbon dioxide molecules.