It is also closing inefficient industrial facilities, tightened efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and is expanding forest coverage.

FORBES: Green Sprouts in the Far East

These biologically rich and unique forests comprise the most extensive forest coverage in West Africa, providing resources depended on by a large percentage of the nation's people.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Seeing the carbon for the trees

The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees.

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