The idea behind international forestry conservation is making trees worth more standing than cut down.
18 May 2011 Last updated at 19:05 ET
By Richard Anderson
Business reporter, BBC News
Given their obvious lack of qualifications, not to mention their recent track record, bankers don’t immediately spring to mind as potential saviours of the rainforests.
Biologists, conservationists and ecologists may seem better suited, but in actual fact one of the most important tasks facing the world today may fall to financiers.
A scary thought perhaps, particularly in light of the global financial crisis brought about in part by excessive risk taking and dodgy synthetic investments dreamt up by over-zealous bankers, but one that is fast becoming reality.
For better or worse, there appears to be little choice.