After last week’s climate change meetings in Cancún, Mexico produced two important developments on forestry, which is a key issue for Indonesia.
Independent research discovered how deforestation is not a major generator of greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, industrialised countries and the World Wide Federation alongside Greenpeace failed to win an agreement for their proposals that the [...]
Experts have warned against a one size fits all approach when it comes to implementing a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change from the destruction of tropical forests. They are demanding a more balanced, flexible solution to surround this new mechanism instead. Their main criticism is that the benefiters of this scheme are [...]
If the climate change summit in Copenhagen was characterized by over optimism followed by bitter disappointment the Cancun summit looks set to be characterized by a cart load of over pessimism. In the face of this apathy you’ve got to admire the attempts by Mexico to ‘rescue’ the climate change negotiations ahead of this year’s [...]
Forestry investment opportunities arise from Mexican commercial plantation plan
A plan to develop commercial forest plantations in 32 states in Mexico presents excellent investment opportunities for firms established in the country.
The National Forest Agency has put together the Rules of Operation and Assembly in which they outline who can benefit from the 531,697,791 Mexican pesos (£23.7 [...]
