Carbon Positive: The first steps to kick start a global REDD scheme to halt deforestation and build on progress in Copenhagen have been taken at a meeting in Paris. A further $1 billion has been promised and a ten-nation steering group established to drive the implementation of a global avoided deforestation and forest carbon enhancement mechanism over the next three years. French President Nicola Sarkozy hosted the closed-door International Conference on the Major Forest Basins last Thursday, the …