24. 《联合国气候变化框架公约》13缔约方会议第八届会议于 2002 年 10 月 23日至 11 月 1 日在新德里举行。缔约方会议得到可持续发展问题世界首脑会议结果的启发，通过了《关于气候变化与可持续发展的德里部长宣言》，宣言将《联合国气候变化框架公约》的执行放在可持续发展的范围内。预料 2003 年 12 月在意大利米兰举行的缔约方会议第九届会议将商定将列入《京都议定书》的清洁发展机制下的造林和再造林活动的定义和模式。14
24. The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change13 took place in New Delhi from 23 October to 1 November 2002. The Conference of the Parties, inspired by the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, adopted the Delhi Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change and Sustainable Development which put the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in the context of sustainable development. It is expected that definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation activities under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change14 will be agreed upon at the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties, to be held in Milan, Italy, in December 2003.