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Science 14 March 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5613, p. 1669
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079024
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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Making Deforestation Pay Under the Kyoto Protocol?

Ernst-Detlef Schulze,1 Danilo Mollicone,2 Frédéric Achard,2* Giorgio Matteucci,2 Sandro Federici,3 Hugh D. Eva,2 Riccardo Valentini3

Current pressures to change the reforestation time limit of the Kyoto Protocol for Clean Development Mechanism sinks will create the conditions to generate carbon credits from recent deforestation of pristine tropical forests.

1Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Post Office Box 100164, 07701 Jena, Germany. 2Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, TP 440, 21020 Ispra, Italy. 3Department of Forest Environment and Resources, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: frederic.achard{at}jrc.it

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