Abstract
How land-use change and forestry sector options can be used to mitigate global warming will depend on a variety
of pending decisions regarding interpretation of the Kyoto Protocol, including treatment of uncertainty. In tropical
forest countries, the allocation of eort between plantation silviculture and reduction of deforestation would be
in¯uenced by the stringency of requirements regarding certainty. Slowing deforestation oers much greater potential
bene®ts, but the certainty associated with these is much lower than in the case of plantations.