Conservation easements have been a powerful tool to protect land from development, and conservationists are lauding the new tax law for extending enhanced federal tax breaks for donating land development rights through 2013 (and retroactively back to Jan. 1, 2012).
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The Monywa mine has now become a national cause, encompassing issues that will be central to Burma's post-military development - land rights, environmental protection, freedom to protest, and balancing the interests of big investors with those of ordinary Burmese citizens.
The BBC's Jonathan Head, who recently visited the Monywa mine, says it has now become a national cause, encompassing issues that will be central to Burma's post-military development - land rights, environmental protection, freedom to protest, and balancing the interests of big investors with those of ordinary Burmese citizens.
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Not everyone agrees that selling development rights to a land trust is the wisest choice for the landowner.
The Macau government's statement came after the Court of Final Appeal ruled last week in a case against a Macau public works official that he accepted bribes from the chairman of Chinese Estates, Joseph Lau, to win development rights to the land.
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With a conservation easement, you give some or all of the development rights on your land to a government agency or not-for-profit (there are more than 1, 700 local land trusts), and you get a federal income tax deduction for the gift (the difference in the value of the land before and after the easement is in place).
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Tens of millions of people in rural areas have been pushed off their land to make way for development (they do not own the land itself, but they do have usage rights).
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Government officials in both countries have enormous influence over contracts and procurement, development and infrastructure projects, loan approvals, real estate transactions, land use rights, and preferences in regulated industries.
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The delegation included experts on labor rights and economic development, rule of law and political reform, ethnic conflict and reconciliation, land-mine removal, and criminal justice.
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