The Little Things Count

The Kyoto Protocol has resulted in the emergence of a more than US$60bn (£34bn) carbon market as the world's main mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This is a welcome start. But about 80% of this money goes to countries which cause less than 20% of emissions.
Tropical deforestation contributes about 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That is about the same as the total emissions from the US, and more than the entire global transportation sector.
You take away the carbon sinks, the carbon is free to rise into the atmosphere and start absorbing and re-radiating the suns solar radiation back to the earth, warming the surface and the atmosphere further. With the blanket of greenhouse gases getting thicker because of human activities, we are increasing the rate at which it is increasing by cutting down such large areas of forest. Logically we should be planting vast areas of forest to photosynthesize the carbon in the atmosphere. A direct counter and along with making efforts ourselves to reduce our emissions and impact on the composition of the atmosphere, we can prevent changes as large as predicted, as will happen over the next few decades.
I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand. We are responsible for our actions and how they affect the habitats of others.