This technical document stresses the necessity for developing countries to define “forest” before they can host afforestation and reforestation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. To do so, they must chose country-specific values from a range provided in the Marrakech Accords for minimum area, crown cover and tree height. The paper also discusses ambiguities and problems of the existing definitions.
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Organization: FAO
Topics: Forestry, Mitigation, Carbon Financing and CDM
Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document
Publication date: 2006
Language: English