“Kami tidak mau menaku-nakuti calon investor. Ini juga bukan pesanan (negara maju) dan tak ada agenda tersembunyi. Kami hanya ingin lembaga keuangan dan perbankan memperbaiki uji tuntas (due diligence) terhadap proyek pabrik pulp karena tanpa analisis yang mendalam, bisa merusak lingkungan dan menimbulkan kerugian financial besar-besaran,” ujar Bambang Setiono.

Ibarat salesman, Menteri Kehutanan MS Kaban tidak sia-sia mempromosikan Indonesia ke Korea dan Jepang akhir April lalu. Maklum, sejumlah investor kakap siap buang duit menanam hutan di negeri ini. Namun, jualan itu belakangan terancam. Entah sengaja atau tidak, mendadak lembaga riset kehutanan internasional yang berpusat di Bogor, Cifor, mengeluarkan laporan seram.

With black leather boots to the scarcely cut bikini Evangelina Carrozo provided recently with the European Union Latin America summit in Vienna for attention. The Argentine Sambakoenigin used a press date with the met state and heads of the government, in order to protest against two planned cellulose factories in Uruguay. Greenpeace forecasts substantial ecological damage by the enterprise of the plants. On the other hand the World Bank daughter let itself Finance corporation (IFC) with an expert’s assessment the safety of the project be certified internationally and promotes its most important investors – the Spanish multi-company Ence and the Finnish company Botnia – with credits at a value of 400 million US dollar. "Completely ignored thereby the question of whether there is enough wood around the factories to operate", warns David Kaimowitz, general manager of the Center for International Rorest Research (CIFOR).

As the world’s tropical forests shrink in the face of economic development, many environmentalists say that the best way to defend what remains is to give the impoverished local peoples who live in their shadow limited rights to cut trees for their own profit. Millions will be lifted from poverty this way, advocates say, and will acquire along the way an incentive to preserve most of the wood for future generations. From Mexico to China and Indonesia, governments are adopting this approach. But the results can be unwelcome: scarred forests and shattered communities.

ACROSS the Far East, Latin America and Central Europe, new pulp mills are springing up and existing mills are being extended. But these projects may carry a much bigger financial risk than investors have realised. Many schemes have exaggerated how much timber they can fell and crack downs on illegal logging threaten to make their new mills unprofitable.

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) menyatakan investor internasional kurang melakukan pemeriksaan kelayakan (due diligence) pada industri pulp (bubur kayu) dunia. CIFOR menilai hal ini dapat mendorong timbulnya berbagai proyek yang salah arah yang dapat menjadikan investor, komunitas yang memanfaatkan hutan dan lingkungan hidup terperosok. “Para pendana jelas tidak mengantisipasi masalah besar yang sekarang mereka hadapi. Dan bank swasta tampaknya mengandalkan pada pihak-pihak lain untuk mengerjakan tugas memperkirakan risiko keuangan serta dampak lingkungan hidup dari proyek ini,” ujar Direktur Jenderal CIFOR David Kaimowitz dalam rilis kepada SH, di Jakarta, akhir pekan lalu.

El estudio del Centro de Investigación Forestal Internacional analizó el efecto de 67 plantas en todo el mundo y reveló que se perdería mucho dinero por no conocer el impacto ambiental que las mismas provocan, además de cuestionar severamente los estudios de factibilidad que realizaron las propias entidades crediticias involucradas en las iniciativas. Más allá de los riesgos ambientales, de no modificar los actuales parámetros de control, las plantas de pasta de celulosa encabezarán el ranking de empresas de alto riesgo financiero. El pronóstico, que suena como una fuerte advertencia para quienes inviertan en el sector, surge de un estudio hecho por el Centro de Investigación Forestal Internacional (Cifor), con base en Indonesia.

The story also appeared in La Voz 9.01 Mhz

Chris Barr, CIFOR Policy Scientist, calculated that Chinese demand for paper and paperboard would hit 68.6 million tones in 2010, up from 48 million in 2003 and 14.6 million tones in 1990. China, the world’s number-two paper producer after the United States, would need to cover a large part of its need from abroad, in part also due to a logging ban at home and closures of small, polluting mills that had used agricultural residues