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Nature 458, 151 (12 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/458151a; Published online 11 March 2009

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Storing carbon in forests

Michael Obersteiner1

BOOK REVIEWEDClimate Change and Forests: Emerging Policy and Market Opportunities

Edited by Charlotte Streck, Robert O'Sullivan, Toby Janson-Smith and Richard G. Tarasofsky
Chatham House: 2008. 360 pp. £39.99

Planting, conserving and managing forests are key for attaining long-term mitigation of greenhouse gases, yet the land-use and forestry sector barely features in the Kyoto Protocol. In Climate Change and Forests, some 50 experts analyse the forestry-based discussions within climate-change negotiations, and offer technical and political reasons for why the Kyoto Protocol handles forestry in such a cumbersome way.