人们谈论减少伐木和林地退化造成的碳排放（REDD）已经几年了，但哥本哈根峰会让我们第一次有机会看到它在全球范围内得到应用。
REDD or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Redd) has been talked about for years but the summit at Copenhagen is the first opportunity to see it implemented on a global scale.
该方案为各国提供了各种奖励措施，以防止森林地区受到包括树木砍伐、农业扩张和土地退化在内的各种影响，把碳释放进大气。
It offers nations incentives to protect forest areas from a variety of impacts that release carbon into the atmosphere, including tree felling and logging, agricultural expansion, land degradation.
在印尼，这将意味着将油棕榈树种植园建立在退化土地，而非林地之上，该国可能拥有4000万公顷可用退化土地。
In Indonesia this would mean putting palm-oil plantations not on forest land but on degraded land, of which it has perhaps 40m hectares available.
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