People and Planet: As first reported last October, the global economy is losing more money from the loss of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-study. Here is a fuller report on a major research exercise which will conclude in 2010. The study, headed by a Deutsche Bank economist, parallels the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. It estimates the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion. The figure comes from adding up the value of the …