While Gibbs says there has been a great deal of momentum towards putting monitoring systems in place, agribusinesses, consumers and activists should continue to demand zero deforestation in the supply chain.
Food retailers such as McDonald's, Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts, as well as agribusinesses like Cargill, are among the big companies to recently make zero-deforestation pledges.
The biggest producers of ethanol are agribusinesses or farmers' co-operatives growing maize (corn) in America and sugarcane in Brazil.
Many of the mid-west's agribusinesses, factories, hotels and restaurants rely heavily on Mexican labour.
Factory jobs have moved offshore or to lower-wage states further south, unions have seen their membership decline, family farmers have sold out to big agribusinesses and moved to the suburbs.Most of the Great Lakes region is relatively old and white.
Though the science is evolving, it is clear that agribusinesses, forestry firms and others who can keep greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere could profit handsomely from the Kyoto deal.
For example, BrasilAgro, a firm controlled by one of Argentina's biggest agribusinesses, Cresud, has acquired close to 200,000 hectares in four years and is trying to buy much more.More from lessBut Brazil should not need to clear more rainforest to accommodate this growth.
Most were forced from the land through the "enclosure movements", where rich landowners seized common land and privatised it for agribusinesses, driving off the peasants with thugs and the army.
The small but influential anti-Cuba lobby, based primarily in Miami, at last has a counterweight in the shape of mid-west farmers (and related agribusinesses) who have been hit by low prices.
Working together they persuaded consumers in their millions to boycott the grapes, lettuces and other products of agribusinesses which refused to negotiate sincerely with the United Farm Workers (UFW).
As much as 80% of its subsidies go to the richest 20% of farmers, and as recently published figures have shown in graphic detail the biggest single recipients of CAP payments tend to be giant agribusinesses and big, wealthy landowners.In the face of such attacks, the French, in particular, remain defiant.
