Session Description
After a severe drought in 2001, the municipality of Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico, decided to form Fidecoagua, a public-private trust in charge of the payment for environmental services program for the conservation of the cloud forest that provides water to the local population. Although Fidecoagua has managed to protect more than 1300 hectares of forest and compensate 179 rural and marginalized families, the needs for conservation and social retribution are enormous.
Despite i...