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<div><font face="Geneva">Weyerhauser isn't specifically mentioned
here, but the article drives home a point of which no timberland owner
can ignore. In the past couple years, major investors holding
trillions of dollars have rather forcefully told a wide variety of
corporations to assess their exposure to climate risk, and make that
knowledge public for all to see.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">Excerpt: "Perhaps most importantly,
forest practices could play key roles in helping nations achieve their
individual climate pledges - pledges that would underpin the
hoped-for Paris climate agreement.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">"Analysis by the Union of Concerned
Scientists throughout the year has highlighted the scant attention
being paid to forests under most of those national pledges. That's
despite forest loss being blamed for more than 10 percent of
climate-changing pollution being released globally every
year.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">"I would say that many of them fall short
by substantial amounts," said Douglas Boucher, a senior analyst at
the nonprofit. "The worst," he said, included pledges from the
U.S. and the European Union.</font></div>
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<div>End excerpt, full article here:</div>
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>http://www.climatecentral.org/news/paris-climate-pact-could-leave-fo<span
></span>rests-vulnerable-19683</div>
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"To effectively reduce emissions, societies need to focus on
reducing the consumption of energy at both the individual/household
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Andrew K. Jorgenson. Analysing fossil-fuel displacement.<i> Nature
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