Investment will be needed to quantify the carbon savings from forestry protection, and to build technical capacity and expertise in the forestry programmes of developing countries.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Seeing the carbon for the trees

While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.

CNN: Firefighters gain ground in California, but death toll rises

According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Buckweed Fire burned 38, 526 acres.

CNN: Police: Boy playing with matches started 38,000-acre fire

The number of people hurt in the fires increased Friday to 85, including at least 61 firefighters, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

CNN: Gov. Schwarzenegger vows to 'hunt down' arsonists

In California, a pair of fires north of San Francisco in Lake County burned 7, 000 acres and were 30% contained Tuesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

CNN: Heartbreaking losses as Western wildfires rage

Instead, they believed it was started by a small, "undetermined roadside ignition of grass and debris" on the edge of U.S. 101 near Thousand Oaks, said Tom Piranio, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

NPR: Cause Of California Wildfire Appears Accidental

So, apart from all the side events with millionaire financiers launching ideas for getting money to poor countries, and ocean scientists warning that the oceans are turning more acidic because of CO2, and forestry experts explaining all the different and often conflicting ways of funding the protection of the forests, you have the main negotiations themselves.

BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Inside Copenhagen

There have also been important contributions from the Forestry Commission, Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

BBC: nightjar-RSPB images