The final statement draft has alarmed the Asia Pacific Rainforest Partnership Private Sector Roundtable, a group of companies working in endangered rainforest regions. In an open letter, the group asks the ministers to create financial mechanisms that increase return and decrease risk, if they want to increase involvement from the private sector. The group has pointed out that "critical gap still exists between ambition and reality in efforts to combat climate change."
Businessmen from the mentioned group claim that improved agricultural and forestry practices offer greater potential for "near-term carbon mitigation" than any other strategies. CO2 storage in plants currently, however, garners less than five percent of public climate finance.
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