Discussions during the 1997 Kyoto summit on climate change identified forests as a valuable resource for sustainable development. Projects that protect and restore forests can help to reduce the level of harmful carbon emissions, as well as benefiting local people and conservation efforts. These projects are an opportunity for countries to reduce their carbon emission levels and meet their Kyoto targets through investment in schemes that protect forests.

Trees absorb carbon from the atmosphere whilst they are growing, which helps to reduce this problem. Developed countries can meet some of their Kyoto targets by funding forest carbon projects, which protect existing forests and promote the growth of new forests. Forest carbon projects can benefit communities through the creation of new jobs. They can also support efforts to conserve threatened forest ecosystems.

Forest carbon projects have the potential to create many benefits, at global and local levels.

AGRIONWEB is promoting this concept to the farming community.