Daniela Chiaretti

Daniela Chiaretti is senior reporter on the environment for Valor Economico, the biggest financial newspaper in Brazil. She has been covering environment issues since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. In the last few years she has been travelling to the Amazon region and reporting local changes, writing stories about climate change, loss of biodiversity, poverty reduction, energy, water and forestry. Daniela is also following the international negotiations on the new climate treaty. She attended CoP-14 in Poznan, Poland last December and has been to some of the UN preparatory meetings for Copenhagen.

Countries divided over how to pay for forests in climate deal

By: Daniela Chiaretti on December 12th, 2008

One of the biggest issues of climate change politics — how forests will fit in next year’s Copenhagen climate deal — was advanced at UN climate talks in Poland this week, but not without question marks and controversy. One of the sticking points that wasn’t resolved in the debate is the role of markets in paying countries with tropical forests to protect them, a scheme known as Reducing Emissions on Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).