The long read: The incredible plan to make money grow on trees

REDD+ is, among many other things, a beautiful idea. There are three trillion trees on Earth and they are perfectly made to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. One of the easiest things to forget, living in a deforested nation, is that people cut down trees to improve their lives. Papua New Guinea has not gone through its forest transition yet. According to the Center for International Forestry Research, it is probably at stage two, known as “frontier conditions”, where things really start to speed up.