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Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Summary
Greenhouse gases and forests
Climate change agreements: origins and status
Forests under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol
Clarifications from COP-6 to COP-9
Complications for potential national legislation
2. Some national legal responses
United States of America
European Community
Costa Rica
Australia
Canada
Dominican Republic
Peru
Spain
New Zealand
Denmark
3. Legal and institutional issues of forest-based mitigation
Property and transfer issues
Regulatory command-and-control issues
Subsidy and tax issues
Information issues
Institutions
4. Some concluding observations for legislative drafters
What should be the role of legislation in supporting use of forests in Greenhouse Gas mitigation?
What expertise might drafters need to succeed in this area?
