امروز با یک اصطلاح جدید آشنا شدم، (Logging Loophole). این عبارت را می شود به شکل های مختلف ترجمه کرد اما من اسمش را می گذارم دودره بازی در قطع درختان. ماجرا به این گونه است که برخی از کشورهای توسعه یافته در تلاشند تا در متن توافقات شرایطی را فراهم کنند که بتوانند درختان را جهت مصارف مختلف مانند تولید برق قطع کنند یا بسوزانند اما این کاهش مساحت در محاسبات مربوط به انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای این کشورها محسوب نشود. میزان انتشار کربن ناشی از جنگل زدایی حدود چهارصد مگاتن است که معادل انتشار گازهای گلخانه ای کشور اسپانیا است. این در حالی است که بحث جنگل زدایی یکی از حوزه هایی است که کشورهای در حال توسعه به طور قابل توجهی برای آن تحت فشار هستند. چند لینک مرتبط با این خبر را به همراه خلاصه ای از محتوایشان درج می کنم.

1- A handful of developed nations like Japan, Australia and Germany are playing all sorts of games at the negotiating table that would  allow them to chop down large swaths of forest and use them for things like burning the wood to generate electricty, but not have to be penalized when it comes to their stated goals to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions.

2- Rich nations are pushing to lock in a logging loophole at the United Nations climate talks in Bonn that would give them leeway to increase forest carbon emissions – rather than reduce them – and not pay a price, a group of advocates warned. 

3- Progress towards a meaningful climate deal in 2010 could be significantly undermined if developed countries succeed in their bid to avoid accountability for their emissions from forestry and bioenergy use, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA). Major developed countries including Austria, Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Sweden proposed an emissions accounting loophole at the UN Copenhagen climate change talks in December that would allow significant emissions increases from forestry and bioenergy without penalty. The loophole would hide increased greenhouse gas emissions of about 400 megatons (CO2 equivalents), and represents a weakening in the forest provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, which are already regarded as weak and ineffective.

4- As Americans celebrated Memorial Day on Monday, the latest round of UN climate treaty negotiations were getting started in Bonn, Germany. Also underway, according to reports, were the efforts by the world’s richest nations to evade their moral obligation to deal with the severity of the climate crisis.