{"id":260870,"date":"2017-01-12T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f75fa5f56877a5b3ae33872c1ad28330"},"modified":"2017-01-12T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:00:01","slug":"new-study-shows-where-carbon-finance-shouldand-shouldntdrive-conservation-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=260870","title":{"rendered":"New study shows where carbon finance should&mdash;and shouldn&#8217;t&mdash;drive conservation efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they&#8217;re often destroyed to make room for farms, mines, and other economic ventures. One possible solution to deforestation is carbon finance: giving companies and countries monetary incentives to reduce their climate change-causing carbon emissions from deforestation. But carbon finance isn&#8217;t in place on the large scale yet, and it&#8217;s unclear how effective it might be. A new study suggests that potential success for carbon finance varies widely\u2014it can work under the right conditions, but it&#8217;s not a one-size-fits-all solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they&#8217;re often destroyed to make room for farms, mines, and other economic ventures. One possible solution to deforestation is carbon finance: giving companies and countries monetary incentives to reduce their climate change-causing carbon emissions from deforestation. But carbon finance isn&#8217;t in place on the large scale yet, and it&#8217;s unclear how effective it might be. A new study suggests that potential success for carbon finance varies widely&mdash;it can work under the right conditions, but it&#8217;s not a one-size-fits-all solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261014,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260870\/revisions\/261014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}