Measuring the cost of disappearing forests

2008-10-12 09:27 AM

Frank K
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 26

A BBC Science article states that "the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study." Annual cost of forest loss, estimated at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion, comes from "adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide".