摘要：The global efforts to construct a general framework for the governance of climate change have affecteddefinitions and framing of forests. Different parties and coalitions of national states have participated inthese deliberations since the agreement of Kyoto protocol in 1997, offering several scale frames for forestsas an object of scientific/ecological knowledge production and as a target of environmental governance.Ecologically forests may function as sources or sinks of carbon emissions depending on spatial and temporalscales; this profound indecisiveness has become a source of political opportunism. In this paper westudy United Nations Climate Change Conference documents along national and international stakeholderpositions. Our focus is on the utilization of scalar claims and definitions of forests as problems or solutionsto the global climate crisis in Finland.
