CIFOR’s director general, Frances Seymour, said: "After being left out of the Kyoto agreement, it’s promising that deforestation is commanding centre-stage at the Bali climate talks."But the danger is that policy-makers will fail to appreciate that forest destruction is caused by an incredibly wide variety of political, economic, and other factors that originate outside the forestry sector, and require different solutions." She said stopping deforestation in Indonesia caused by overcapacity in the wood processing industry was a completely different challenge from dealing with deforestation stemming from a road project in the Amazon or forest degradation caused by charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa.
