The General Law for Sustainable Forest Development aims to protect and restore forests, as well as ensure biodiversity conservation and protection of people affected by forest changes. It encourages sustainable use of forests and forest products.
This law includes the National Forestry Programme 2014-2018 with 5 objectives, various strategies and actions.
"The key objectives are the following:
• Increase sustainable production and productivity of forests
• Promote conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems
• Protect forest ecosystems (forest fires, illegal logging)
• Promote and strengthen forest governance and local capacity building
• Promote and foster an enabling institutional framework for sustainable forest development
Moreover, the Programme sets targets for sustainable forest development. These include:
• Increase the percentage of sustainably harvested forest resources from 31.6% in 2013 to 58.7% in 2018
• Reach 94% of forest areas certified under “good forest management practice” by 2018
• Include at least 10.2% of forest area in the ‘payment for ecosystem services’ scheme
• Increase the percentage of restored or rehabilitated forest area from 0.71% in 2013 to 5.45% in 2018 (out of the areas designated for restoration)
• Reduce the annual net deforestation rate from -0.24% in 2010 to -0.20% in 2015 (18% reduction)
• Reduce the percentage of wood sold on illegal markets from 27.6% in 2012 to 0% in 2018 (proxy indicator)
• 8,750,000 tons of avoided CO2e emissions from deforestation and forest degradation by 2018
• Increase by 30% the credits allocated for forestry development and conservation programmes by the Development Bank of Mexico between 2012 and 2018" (LSE Grantham http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/law/general-law-for-sustainable-forest-development/)