Trees Are At Heart Of Talks On Climate
Posted by ecoshift on December 8, 2007
Trees Are At Heart Of Talks On Climate – washingtonpost.com
Compromise Proposed To Save Tropical Forests
By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 9, 2007; Page A01
As 12,000 people gathered in Bali this week to begin framing a global response to Earth’s warming climate, efforts to close a deal that would slow destruction of tropical forests appear to be the best prospect for a concrete achievement from the historic assemblage.
But the deforestation issue is also Exhibit A for the disputes that have made climate negotiations lengthy and divisive despite widening agreement that global warming is real and largely man-made. While scientific dispute over what causes global warming has ended, the debate over how to address it has just begun.
