Reducing Emissions from Deforestation

The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, allowed only afforestation (A) and reforestation (R) under its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the Protocol’s flexible mechanisms.  Four years later, when the rules and modalities of Afforestation & Reforestation CDM (AR CDM) were established under the Marrakech Accords, developing countries were all ...detail.