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51 Int'l Soc. Work 7 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk51 and id is 1 raw text is: International Social Work 51 (1): 7-10 Sage Publications: Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore DOI: 10.1177/0020872807083909 Editorial Welcome to a new volume of International Social Work. 2008 falls 80 years after the first meeting in Paris of people who laid the basis for the establishment of the three international associations which initiated this journal. We shall be marking this event with a special issue later this year. Before then we also look forward to other Special Issues: a regional special focusing on Africa (which will be available for the IASSW conference in South Africa) and another focusing on poverty and social development (which should be out in time for the ICSW and IFSW conferences in France and Brazil respectively). When I was looking ahead to writing this editorial a couple of news items, on very different topics, caught my eye. The first dis- cusses efforts to preserve rainforests (and thereby slow down global warming) and is related to the wider environmental context in which we all practise. The second seems much more parochial since it concerns private child care facilities in the UK, but I suggest that this also has more than just local relevance. The first article (Mathiason, 2007a) highlights the fact that indus- trial clearance of rainforests (including illegal logging) accounts for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, which in turn alter weather patterns. Climate change experts believe that slowing down the destruction of rainforests is one of the most effective ways of com- batting global warming and a new initiative for the rainforests featured in discussions which took place in Bali in late 2007. These were primarily aimed at developing a new framework to replace the UN's Kyoto agreement on measures to address climate change. Two countries, Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica, have been joined by nearly 20 other rainforest countries in proposing an initia- tive through which carbon saved by reduced deforestation could be traded internationally. Such a plan challenges governments in developing countries to effectively regulate logging and promote sustainable forestry industries; but it also requires governments of developed countries and commercial enterprises to ensure that

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