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22/11/2009
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JAKARTA (AFP) -- Hundreds of
Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation.
About 200 ...
14/11/2009
Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign
Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.
Immigration official Jumanter Lubis said Saturday the activists violated their tourist visas and are being ...
14/11/2009
Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest in Indonesia on Thursday to demand more U.S. action to stop deforestation.
Fifty activists from a dozen countries, including major ...
13/11/2009
Finnish paper company UPM-Kymmene will stop buying paper pulp from Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) due to concerns over the company's poor environmental record, reports
Greenpeace. UPM-Kymmene contact's represents 4 ...
13/11/2009
My colleagues in the Amazon office of
Greenpeace like to characterise deforestation as a lion, oscillating between periods of slumber and bouts of frenetic and violent activity. New figures released by Brazil's government yesterday suggest that ...
12/11/2009
The Brazilian government yesterday announced a "historic" drop in the deforestation of the Amazon, weeks before world leaders meet in Copenhagen for climate change talks.
Brazilian authorities said that between August 2008 and July this ...
5/11/2009
Indonesia will stick to a controversial plan to open peatlands for oil palm estates as it seeks to develop the economy despite protests from green groups that this type of land conversion speeds up climate change.
The Southeast Asian ...
3/11/2009
One of the world's largest and most prestigious fashion brands has stated it will stop sourcing paper from Indonesian
forests and will drop Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as a supplier, which has become notorious for tropical deforestation. The move ...
3/11/2009
AUSTRALIA has been accused of pushing for a "get-out clause" on climate change that would grant it unlimited carbon credits from new forestry plantations while pretending that enormous greenhouse gas emissions from bushfire did not ...
26/10/2009
A vital safeguard to protect the world's rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December.
Under proposals due to be ratified at the ...
22/10/2009
The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's
forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday.The group, presenting its figures during ...
22/10/2009
In a somewhat controversial statement made on Wednesday, England’s elite science academy, The Royal Society, said that world must utilize genetically modified crops in order to feed a rapidly growing global population and reduce the environmental ...
22/10/2009
Scientists and activists say that but for the fact that the 'brinjal', also called 'eggplant' or 'aubergine', is native to India and a favourite on the table, the decision to allow commercial release of its genetically modified (GM) variety may ...
20/10/2009
It is one of the world's last great wildernesses, a 435-mile long peninsula of lakes and squelching tundra stretching deep into the Arctic Ocean. For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have migrated along the Yamal peninsula. In summer they ...
16/10/2009
Indonesia's tough new environment law, passed last month and aimed at any firm with an effect on the environment, may take as long as two years to implement, a senior government official said on Friday.
The law allows the government to ...
15/10/2009
European countries are still undecided on how to handle the thorny issue of deforestation under a new international climate change agreement, with national interests coming into play as EU ministers gear up for a series of meetings next ...
15/10/2009
The environmental group
Greenpeace is attacking the legitimacy of a 13-year effort to produce carbon credits by saving Bolivia's rainforests -- an effort that other advocates defend as a pioneering and vitally necessary model for fighting global ...
15/10/2009
More than a decade ago in the northeast corner of Bolivia, a group of polluters and environmentalists joined forces in the first large-scale experiment to curb climate change with a strategy that promised to suit their competing interests: ...
9/10/2009
THE EU has been accused of colluding with the logging industry to downgrade the protection of
forests -- the world`s most important "carbon sinks" -- and allow them to be replaced by timber plantations under the guise of "sustainable forest ...
8/10/2009
A group of timber and paper supply companies and environmental organizations announced Thursday a pilot project to allow landowners who selectively log their
forests to earn carbon credits they can trade on the open market. Such a trading system ...
8/10/2009
U.S. companies could save tens of billions of dollars by investing in efforts to combat deforestation in developing nations instead of cleaning up their own domestic carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report released Wednesday.
The ...
5/10/2009
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David Adam
Four of the biggest companies involved in Brazilian cattle farming have joined forces to stop the purchase of cattle from newly deforested areas of the Amazon.
Meat companies Marfrig, ...
3/10/2009
In an unlikely--and perhaps tenuous--alliance, conservationists and the palm oil industry met this week to draw up plans to save Asia's last great ape, the orangutan. As if to underscore the colloquium's importance, delegates on arriving in the ...
2/10/2009
Greenhouse gas emissions form Alberta's oilsands operations are worse than reported because oil companies and governments do not include emissions from
forests destroyed in the process of developing mines, says a study released ...
29/9/2009
Environmentalists on Tuesday welcomed Indonesia's pledge to substantially cut the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, saying the promise could help talks on crafting a broader global pact to fight climate change.
Indonesia is the ...