Carbon Positive: The first decade of the 21st Century has seen the rate of worldwide deforestation fall for the first time since records began, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At the same time, the planting of new forests and natural regeneration is making a significant contribution to reducing the rate of loss of global forest cover, the FAO says in its ‘Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010’. "The study found that 13 million hectares (ha) of forest were lost each year …