The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

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Across
  1. 2. Offsets have not worked as well as hoped for because they are very difficult to _______.
  2. 3. How much of South America does the Amazon Rain Forest cover?
  3. 4. Which country is responsible for 30% of the worlds CO2 emissions?
  4. 6. The hope for putting a price on carbon was to lead to more __________ policy.
  5. 7. Great degradation of natural capital has driven the development of Gross ________ Product.
  6. 11. Brazil should be willing to stop what for $1-2 billion per year?
  7. 13. The "Tree Killing Ecologist" runs the Earth ________ Institute.
  8. 14. Between 1970-2005, which country was doing everything it could to destroy the forest?
Down
  1. 1. The regions in and around the Amazon are some of the _______ in Brazil.
  2. 5. How many countries does the forest stretch across?
  3. 6. What percent of all the species on the planet has made their home in the Amazon Rain Forest?
  4. 8. Any economic discussion of the Amazon starts with the amount of ______ stored in the Forest.
  5. 9. The average person does about $800 in climate damage per ____.
  6. 10. Is the Amazon worth more or less as a forest than it is as land for cattle ranching?
  7. 12. Majority of the cleared land in the Amazon is used for what type of ranching?