Date: September 15, 2014

Forests and their role in reducing global carbon emissions will get their time in the limelight at next week’s U.N. Climate Summit in New York, sources involved in the meeting say.

Government officials, major corporations and indigenous communities are expected to band together and present a new vision of how to slow the destruction of millions of acres of tropical forests each year, a trend that currently contributes somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.