Rainforest nations want coordinated carbon effort

MILAN (Reuters) – Rainforest nations will lobby the United Nations to set up a single body to coordinate the use of carbon credit trading to stop deforestation at a conference next month in Poland, an official from the countries said on Tuesday.

“A new body should be built to coordinate initiatives (on cutting emissions from deforestation) that are going around now,” Federica Bietta, Deputy Director of New York-based Coalition for Rainforest Nations, which represents about 40 countries, told Reuters on the margins of a deforestation conference in Milan.

The Coalition and other supporters of the United Nations’-backed scheme, called REDD, or reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, hope to include it into a successor of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change after 2012.

Reuters UK