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...that opposition has eased. (The holdouts, like Greenpeace, tend to be skeptical of market-based solutions to climate change in general, not just REDD.) That's partly thanks to a better understanding that "if deforestation is 20% of the problem, it should be 20% of the solution," according to Benoit Bosquet, team leader of the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, which helps developing countries prepare for REDD projects. Tree-spotting has improved; Japan's alos satellite uses cloud-penetrating radar to detect deforestation even in the rainy Amazon, making projects cheaper to police...
...Redundancy, Again,” as well as various “Scientific Demonstrations” and other humorous skits. Marc Abrahams, the event’s lamé donning emcee, mingled with a host of others—including Nobel Prize Winners William Lipscomb and Benoit Mandelbrot—onstage. At one point, two lucky audience members won dates with the octogenarian Nobel laureates. One of the award recipients, Brent Jordan—who previously worked as bouncer at a gentlemen’s club in New Mexico—said he was excited to be a part...
...Think of the Oscar ceremony," says psychologist Benoit Monin. "Someone says something that has to do with race, and you pan to Samuel L. Jackson...
...save the 32 million acres of forest destroyed each year. Existing carbon-credit programs focus on industrial emissions; this initiative extends carbon trading to the big chunk of CO2 emissions caused by deforestation. "If deforestation is 20% of the problem, it should be 20% of the solution," says Benoit Bosquet, a biocarbon specialist with the bank who is setting up the fund...
...MICHAEL BENOIT, father of pro wrestler Chris Benoit, who killed his wife and son before committing suicide last week. Federal agents are investigating whether Chris Benoit was improperly prescribed testosterone...