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Socioeconomics, Planning, and Management

Forest carbon accounting to leverage mitigation actions: implications for the Paris Agreement based on the analysis of countries’ decision under the Kyoto Protocol

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Pages 176-185 | Received 13 Jul 2023, Accepted 31 Dec 2023, Published online: 13 Jan 2024

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