Methods of Slowing Deforestation Tangle Climate Talks. By Alister Doyle, Reuters, August 23, 2008. "A 160-nation U.N. climate conference in Ghana split on Friday over ways to pay poor countries to slow deforestation... Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said during the August 21-27 meeting of 1 500 delegates [that,] 'For many developing countries, avoiding deforestation is pretty much the only way they can engage in the climate change regime and reap some benefits'... [Brice Lalonde of France, speaking on behalf of the E.U.] said [it] was willing to consider extra aid or to work out new forms of carbon trading. The European parliament voted this year to auction 15% of emissions from aviation and use proceeds for measures such as slowing deforestation... The Pacific island of Tuvalu, threatened by rising seas, said a levy of $20 a tonne on emissions of CO2 from all international aviation and maritime transport would generate revenues of about $24 billion a year... Slowing economic growth in many nations, along with high food and fuel prices, makes it harder to find cash for forest protection. Friends of the Earth... said there were risks that an inflow of funds would push up the value of forests and lead to a land grab by foreign investors that could threaten the rights of indigenous peoples... [But] De Boer played down worries about 'carbon colonialism', saying that measures to protect forests seemed to be in the interests of local people... dependent on... [forest] animals and plants."
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