NGOs push for greater transparency, ambition in carbon accounting for forestry

. We have also analyzed the impacts of a move toward more comprehensive accounting and we will present the results of this analysis at a side event seminar here at the conference.

Jason and I have only been on the ground in Bonn for two days, but we have been very active in this short time: communicating with our NGO colleagues, speaking directly with negotiators, and performing some real-time analysis. We look forward to another week and a half of such productivity and, hopefully, to progress not only on forestry and land use accounting rules, but in these negotiations on the whole. We have less than six months until the next Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico.

Miriam Chaum is an Economic Policy Fellow in the Climate & Air group at EDF working on global emissions reductions pathways, international climate finance and economics, and forestry and land use in the developed world. She has been covering the forestry and land use issue with Jason Funk, Ph.D. since the 15^th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen in December 2009.