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The 1988 Education Act began to cut them down to size.
ECONOMIST: Education
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The point of the project, which should be completed by 2014, is to allow Nepal to participate in international carbon-trading schemes that pay poor countries with lots of trees not to cut them down.
ECONOMIST: Forest conservation
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Even on the (optimistic) assumption that the police try their best, efforts to stop deforestation may fail unless it becomes more profitable for people who control the forest to leave trees intact than it is to cut them down.
ECONOMIST: Global consensus on climate change is maddeningly elusive