> But it also accounts for the economic benefits of the Amazon’s environmental influence, such as sequestering carbon dioxide and regulating the local weather.
It seems like this calculation was only measuring the economic benefit to Brazil. But if they are already able to measure the value of sequestering carbon dioxide, it seems like it might be possible to predict the global benefit of the forest and its value to the world. If that’s the case, I feel a logical step would be for other nations to compensate Brazil to not tear down the forest and exploit its resources.
$8.2B a year, but even then it's an obscenity to put a $ value on the regional biome; it's not like it can replaced, we're only just starting to ask intelligent questions about natural forest.
It seems like this calculation was only measuring the economic benefit to Brazil. But if they are already able to measure the value of sequestering carbon dioxide, it seems like it might be possible to predict the global benefit of the forest and its value to the world. If that’s the case, I feel a logical step would be for other nations to compensate Brazil to not tear down the forest and exploit its resources.