Why would America's largest coal utility and Britain's biggest oil company invest in protecting a remote plot of Bolivian rainforest?
American Electric Power and BP invested in the pilot project alongside environmental groups such as the Nature Conservancy to find out if protecting forests compensates for their own pollution.
The burning of tropical forests emits more carbon dioxide every year than all the cars, planes, and boats on the planet - between 15 and 20% of global emissions.
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