It's the trees, silly.

And you thought the Clean Development Mechanism was contentious...

Near the conclusion of his article in The New Yorker (see my last post), Michael Specter discussed the importance of deforestation in the context of global carbon emissions.

Some discussion was generated, leaving a few of us wondering what can be done for the world's forests.  Indeed, concern for the Earth's tropical forests seems to be in the ascendancy.  A few weeks ago, Nature News gave some further insights into the mechanisms and strategies policymakers have devised to increase conservation.  I'll leave my comments at that for now.  Surely we'll be hearing more about the role of forests as the UNFCCC moves towards its 2009 Copenhagen accords.