Climate Change Threatens Peru’s Economic Progress As Amazon Becomes Net Emitter of CO2

Climate News Network: Peru is the country chosen to host the 2014 United Nations (UN) climate conference, a key meeting for trying to advance an ambitious plan to rein in greenhouse emissions which is planned for agreement in 2015. Scientists think Peru`s role reversal from being a carbon sink to a net emitter of CO2 in 2012 is result of droughts in the western Amazon. Photo credit: tadd_debbie /Flickr But the country has recently earned a rather more dubious distinction. In 2012, for the first time, the Peruvian......

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