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The Amazon has experienced two once-in-a-century droughts in the last five years. The extreme droughts have killed millions of trees, which release carbon dioxide and turn the world’s largest rainforest into a source of greenhouse gasses. Researchers worry this will compromise REDD, a United Nations mechanism to stall global warming by reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.
Extreme drought has turned the Amazon rainforest into a source of carbon dioxide for two of the last five years. Brian Murray, director of Economic Analysis at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, talks to host Bruce Gellerman about what drought in the Amazon might mean for the future of REDD, the United Nations mechanism designed to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation.