It is important to realize that allocation of
resources among classes of possible forest sector
response options represents a zero-sum game
from the standpoint of funding for combating
global warming. At the Global Environment
Facility (GEF), which administers funds under
Agenda 21 (the action plan adopted at the
United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development-UNCED, held in Rio de
Janeiro in June 1992) forest sector options are
grouped in a single category (separate from
energy options), such that every dollar spent, for
example, on promoting plantations means one
less dollar spent on reducing deforestation.