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Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests

Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests

A logging yard in the Amazon rainforest Tarcisio Schnaider/Getty Images In 1986, an energy CEO heard a briefing about climate change and felt guilty that his company was building a coal-fired power plant in Connecticut. The company eventually paid to plant trees for timber in Guatemala so farmers would stop cutting down intact forest, in...