Reuters: Europe’s environment chief suggested using some of the cash generated by the EU’s landmark emissions trading scheme to tackle the loss of forests, home to half the world’s known species and a third of its land area. Speaking at a news conference on Friday, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said he wanted to reduce gross tropical deforestation by at least 50 percent by 2020 and halt global forest cover loss by 2030 at the latest. “We are not going to have effective …