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Forests have a vital role to play in the fight against global warming, being the largest terrestrial store of carbon and, after coal and oil, the third largest source of carbon emissions. Forests have significant economic and ecological value as a provider of ecosystem services, are home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and sustain the livelihoods of over 1 billion of the world’s poorest people.