Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

Remote sensing is crucial for getting the measure of forest loss. Countries don't need their own satellites but they do need training.

Locking carbon away as charcoal in the soil could help to mitigate climate change but whether it will work in practice remains a mystery.

Growing forests might be easy but getting developing-country forests onto the carbon market is proving more difficult.

The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.

Leafy forests replanted by communities in Nepal are flying in the face of accepted conservation practice, reports T. V. Padma.

Indonesia's carbon-storing peatlands are interesting the world's carbon-traders. But that's news to the locals, reports Gillian Murdoch.

Catherine Brahic reports on how fluctuations in Europe’s emissions market could impede green development in poor countries.