ver of climate change and a key focus for activities related to poverty alleviation, adaptation to climate change, and protection of biodiversity and water resources. Currently deforestation and other land-use activities account for 18% of net annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,1 but through biotic offset projects, reforestation, afforestation, sustainable forestry management and avoided deforestation,2 it is possible to increase carbon sequestration in forests. Through the Kyoto Protocol, most developed countries have made bindi