Doing business: Afraid of Chinese timber products

October 9th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Business - (0 Comments)

Here a brief situation of doing business in Indonesia, bear in mind if you interested to start a business in Indonesia: More Indonesians are afraid of chinese product!

Doing business in Indonesia might be better than in Malaysia, or Thailand. Only Vietnam that has similar and comfort environment to start up a new business.

More Indonesian businessman are worrying about Chinese products that will flood Indonesia‘s markets because of the FTA agreement. Chinese products are known as cheaper, mimic and some of them are below-average quality.

The ASEAN-China FTA agreement was signed about ten years ago in Cambodia, enabling member countries to make necessary years of preparations. Why businessman still worrying on Chinese product?

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China and carbon trade

October 2nd, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (0 Comments)

I think China will become the most powerful country in coming years, as the US and its alliances are experiencing slow-down economic rate and debt-crisis.

The powerful country roles as trend setter in world economic movement, including in carbon trade. Environmental commodities such carbon, are important measures of world action to reduce climate change effects.

A global conference on carbon trade was held in Beijing in April 1-2, 2009.  China Carbon Trade Summit 2009 responses the emerging global market of carbon trading. Reports says estimation of  global carbon trading market size will reach US$150 billion by 2012. This market potentially reach US$ 3 trillion over the next 20 years. (more…)

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Top 10 carbon emitting countries

June 28th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (0 Comments)

We’re living on the same earth, single atmosphere –but all of us don’t receive the same natural resources and experiencing different path and speed of economic development. Some countries now become the richest who developed one and other become the poor, or call them developing countries.

Developed countries emitted higher carbon dioxide,  an important substance that heating up our climate. Let see which countries that have  emitted huge carbon in the past;they contributed to current global warming phenomenon. All carbon emission data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. However, data excludes emissions from land use and agriculture (including deforestation)

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