Guardian: Today’s report from Johan Eliasch on the measures needed to save the tropical rainforests demonstrates how we have reached an important watershed in a key environmental debate that has raged on for more than two decades. I came to this issue in 1990, when I took on the role of running Friends of the Earth’s tropical rainforest campaign. Back then the focus was on development projects such as dams and roads, the international commerce in tropical hardwoods and the land rights of …