FN's rammekonvention om klimaændringer vurderer, at en af de politikker, der burde gennemføres med henblik på at mildne klimaændringerne, er at fremme skovene til fiksering af kulstof ved hjælp af skovplantnings- og genplantningsaktiviteter.
The United Nations Conventions on Climate Change consider that one of the policies which should be implemented with a view to mitigating climate change is the promotion of forests as fixers of carbon, through forestation and reforestation activities.