And while the revised agreement gives extra credit to Japan for protecting its own forests, it perversely awards no credit at all for projects designed to stop tropical deforestation elsewhere.
B1 Watershed Land Conflict New York City is leasing hundreds of acres of farmland and forests it owns around its drinking water reservoirs in the Catskills and the Hudson Valley for traditional rural uses.
One of the world's largest peat swamp forests, it is also one of its biggest vaults of carbon dioxide, a source of potentially lucrative currency as world governments struggle to hammer out a global climate treaty.
Because of its preference for dense forests, it acts as a good indicator of the ecosystem's health.
And the Kyoto rules give the government considerable potential to pick and choose which carbon emissions and which carbon sinks from forests it declares for the purposes of meeting its targets.
"I think each nation should have its own monitoring capability, monitor their own forests; it leads to a series of positive outcomes," Asner said.
The government expects only 8% of the forests it sells to be bought by community groups.
It is not about the forests; it is about the organisation's concern".
Some 7% of "production" forests, it turns out, are in good shape, compared with just 2.4% of "protection" forests.
Not only should it not be cut out of the forests it affects, but it could also be introduced in injured woodlands to restore them to health.
Surrounded by oak and beech forests, it is named after a legendary queen of ancient Beroea (present Véroia, capital of the nomós).
