More than 50 people from 30 countries attended the workshop, organised by the International Tropical Timber Organisation, the Food and Agricultural Organisation and the Ghana Forestry Commission.
They heard that Kyoto’s clean development mechanism (CDM) could see industrialised countries implementing projects, such as commercial plantations in developing nations, as an alternative to more costly emissions reduction.
Workshop consultant Kwame Asumadu described CDM activities involving forestry as the “icing on the cake” because they sequestered carbon and produced timber.
He said there were few CDM projects in Africa compared with South-east Asia and South America.
CDM projects could see more than US$30bn being injected into the economies of developing nations by 2012, according to some estimates.
