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标题：reflections
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作者：Achim Steiner ; UN Under-Secretary-General ; Executive Director, UNEP 等
期刊名称：Our Planet
印刷版ISSN：1013-7394
出版年度：2008
期号：3
页码：3-3
出版社：United Nations Environment Programme
摘要：How might the world deal with the multiple challenges of poverty, biodiversity loss, land degradation, conservation of water supplies and climate change? Part of the solution may lie in building new financial arrangements — or perhaps even carbon market mechanisms — that address deforestation and the degradation of forest ecosystems. The idea is not new. It was proposed and then abandoned, amidst fiercely differing opinions, when the Kyoto Protocol was agreed over a decade ago. But it has gained a head of steam since 2005 when countries and non-governmental organizations meeting in Montreal put aside their differences to give it a fair hearing. It could now become a central plank of a new, and more inclusive, climate deal when nations meet for crucial negotiations in Copenhagen in late 2009.