REDD looks extremely uncertain, but without it massive tropical deforestation is inevitable.

REDD计划虽然看起来极不确定，但没有它，大片热带森林被毁将不可避免。

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"If we lose the battle against tropical deforestation, we lose the battle against climate change," he warns.

他警告说，“如果我们打败了反对热带森林砍伐的战斗，也就打败了抵抗气候变化的战斗。”

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The only real achievement at Bali was a decision to set up a pilot project to investigate how to stop tropical deforestation.

在巴厘岛真正取得的成就是确立了一个试验性项目以研究如何阻止热带雨林消失的决定。

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Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting down of tropical forests to provide land for agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The threat of biodiversity loss is real but exaggerated, as is the problem of tropical deforestation.

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Most tropical deforestation is the result of expanding commercial ranching and agriculture, driven by rocketing domestic and global demand for food, fibre and biofuel.

ECONOMIST: Seeing the wood

But developing countries have no incentive to stop cutting down their forests, and tropical deforestation accounts for around 20% of total annual greenhouse-gas emissions.

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