Are Ecuador's Plans to Leave Oil Under the Amazon a New Model for Tackling Climate Change?

摘要

While the world's attention may be fixed on Copenhagen, it is in Ecuador that one of the boldest new measures yet taken by a government to combat climate change has been announced. In a recent paper published in Biotropica, experts assess the Yasuni-ITT initiative which aims to prevent millions of tons of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere by not drilling for oil in the Amazon rainforest.