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Charles urges forest logging halt
Prince Charles said there needed to be rewards for preserving the rainforest
The halting of logging in the world’s rainforests is the single greatest solution to climate change, Prince Charles has said.
He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them felling their rainforests.
The prince told the BBC that the forests provided the earth’s “air conditioning system”.
He said it was “crazy” the rainforests were worth more “dead than alive” to some of the world’s poorest people.
The world’s forests store carbon in their wood and in their soils.