Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation
It's interesting that it's seen as aid.<p>If countries like Norway feel that standing trees provide a service to them, they <i>should</i> pay to keep them up.<p>It's not charity, the trees are providing a marketable good by processing CO2 emissions.<p>While I'm not an environmentalist, I do believe in markets as a way of solving larger problems and I think it would be interesting if a market was built on resource preservation.<p>For instance, if a type of tree processes more CO2, they should be worth more than one that does not and that can be expressed in whatever this marketplace would be.  If I had more connections at a government level, I might be interested in such an idea but as it stands now the sales cycles would be too long to get a market like that going.