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...proposals include a plan to tax nations based on their carbon emissions, two versions of an international cap-and-trade system, and the idea of abandoning one over-arching international climate accord in favor of a system of more specific agreements...
Stavins said that the proposals were neither mutually exclusive nor even necessarily sufficient on their own. He advocated for the free market as a tool for controlling carbon emissions, but acknowledged that “tremendous political resistance” in developed countries could make market solutions difficult to implement...
...layer of peat, an extremely combustible material, provides ready fuel for ravaging wildfires. These fires could drive carbon emissions higher still, Moorcroft said...
Indonesian peatland fires in 1997 resulted in the release of 80 to 250 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, according to a study of those fires in the journal Nature...
Moorcroft said he hopes to study further the potential for fires in northern bogs affected by climate change, particularly because this study predicted that carbon decomposition would soon rise rapidly, further emphasizing the importance of immediate action in mitigating global warming...