Abstract: Deforestation especially in tropical developing countries is an important greenhouse gas emission source, secondary only to fossil fuel combustion. Reducing deforestation can contribute to the mitigation of the greenhouse gas emissions. Proposed by some enthusiastic countries, deforestation reduction in developing countries has been and will be in a long term, one of the hot topics of the Conference of Parties (Item 6). This paper reviews and analyzes proposals from parties on the deforestation reduction, and puts forward some issues deserved for consideration.

Key words: developing countries, deforestation reduction