The Heat is Online ' website. Campaigns Join WWF's Climate Change Campaign . Take a look at our online searchable catalogue for more information. It stores vast amounts of carbon and plays a double role in the problem of global warming. The burning of the Brazilian Amazon is estimated to put 200 to 300 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year.
Carbon is a principal cause of global warming.
On the other hand, Amazonian replanted forests, like this, could play a key part in the international negotiations about carbon control. For planted forests are an efficient method of absorbing carbon out of the atmosphere. The international conference in the Hague about the Climate Convention collapsed over this issue. These were called carbon credits. This programme takes the complicated idea of a carbon credit away from the Hague negotiations, and tries to discover what it means - in the terms of one specific industry in one region of Amazonia.