Carbon Positive: The UN climate talks on forestry are on the verge of agreeing a deal on a global programme to reduce deforestation, known as REDD, according to various reports from the Copenhagen conference. A deal would pave the way for the preservation of vital carbon-storing native tropical forests, absent from the Kyoto Protocol, to be included in a global climate accord for the first time. Significantly the evolving agreement text appears now to include carbon-rich peatlands as well. Latest …