"Disagreement over what constitutes a forest could undermine an agreement to protect forests, which is expected to be one of the bright spots at the UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen..."
"For people who are not working at the ground level, it may seem easy to say what is and what is not a forest," says Dennis Garrity, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre ... "But there is really no single definition of forests that can apply to the continuum of landscapes with trees. More important will be to capture all the land use practices that are major contributors to global warming or could play a significant role in carbon reduction."
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