Deforestation and Climate Change. Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
这本书汇集了全球专家关于热带森林碳纳入国际气候政策的讨论，主要关注减少森林砍伐和退化产生的排放（REDD），适合研究者和政策制定者参考。
The book aims to provide updated information on the major issues related to including tropical forest carbon in international climate policies. The book addresses a non-technical audience but highly concerned about environmental topics. It gathers together 10 relevant contributions from a set of worldwide experts on the topic. The authors try, although not always successfully, to leave out technical details and provide a clear discussion of each topic. However, all the chapters make up a book of high value as the most up-to-date compilation on this hot topic, designed to be a reference for researchers and policy makers interested in the environmental and forest-resource management at the national, regional and international levels. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in tropical countries is the real major recurrent subject throughout the book. From its title, a reader would expect a book aimed at explaining and demonstrating the scientific biophysical links between forest degradation, deforestation and climate change. Moreover, its subtitle also suggests a focus on the scientific reasons why reducing deforestation is related to carbon emissions. However, these topics are not addressed in practical terms in this book. Its contributions focus on REDD from different perspectives and technical approaches, but essentially economic and political ones. Despite the general agreement on the importance of REDD, it was omitted from the Clean-Development Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. However, it was first recognised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties in Montreal, Canada, in 2005. Lastly, in Bali in 2007, the parties decided to explore policies and financial initiatives to be implemented after 2012.