Where forest ownership is contested, because local rights are vague or there are competing title deeds, for example, that becomes more difficult.

ECONOMIST: Tropical forests�� best hope

Attaching rights to carbon in standing forest, while easier to define, will run into similar problems in places where ownership of forestland and forest services are weak and ill-defined.

ECONOMIST: Letters

As you head up the mountains and the forest advances to the edge of the country roads, you can easily make out the ownership markings of individual bamboo trees written in black Chinese characters on their trunks.

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In this real world, there were things like custom software and ownership percentages and Machiavellian corporate struggles, all of which resulted in the ability to drive a heartbreakingly beautiful forest-green Range Rover up your own paved drive.

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