"We want some kind of mechanism to stop deforestation," said Zacune.
There is now serious and credible discussion about stopping deforestation completely and even replanting rainforest in deforested areas.
To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide variety of motivations.
How to stop deforestation has become one of the hottest questions in the climate change debate.
The fund will hand out money to poor countries to stop deforestation.
The UK has already handed out £300 million on top of the £2.9 billion for climate change to stop deforestation.
She stressed that many laws have not stopped deforestation, either at the hands of businessmen or villagers.
Ethiopia's government, along with organizations like Farm Africa, is starting to take steps to stop excessive deforestation .
The 15-year Environment Action Plan, authorized in 1999, proposed to stop deforestation by developing alternative fuel sources.
So stopping deforestation is one of the most obvious and immediate solutions to climate change.