Why does the UN’s latest scheme to save the forests not address the drivers of deforestation?
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Why does the UN’s latest scheme to save the forests not address the drivers of deforestation?
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More eucalyptus monocultures are planned for Laos.
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Climate scientists and climate negotiators might as well live on different planets.
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The largest area of intact lowland evergreen forests in southeast Asia is under threat.
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FAO continues to push the lie of “planted forests”.
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Why trading the carbon stored in forests will not help address runaway climate change.
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Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
A report by Chris Lang, published by World Rainforest Movement, December 2008
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Announcing my new report: “Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South”.
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Despite the social and environmental impacts of the pulp industry in the Mekong Region, governments, banks and consultants are helping it to expand.
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Vietnam has an ever increasing area of monoculture eucalyptus plantations. Nevertheless, the country faces paper shortages every year.
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Through funding coal-fired power plants, the Asian Development Bank is helping accelerate climate change. Its destruction of forests makes things worse.
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Building dams on the Mekong mainstream will destroy the Mekong’s fisheries and subject millions of people to food shortages and poverty.
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By Chris Lang. Presentation at a conference in Berlin: “Sustainability certificates for agroenergy: Guardrail or lubricant for trade with regrowing energy resources?” organised by Brot für die Welt and FDCL, 4 October 2008.
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The massive expansion of agrofuels is responsible for forest destruction, livelihood loss and increased food costs. Certification of agrofuels will do nothing to address the problems.
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FSC is undermining its own legitimacy and (more importantly) struggles in the South against monoculture tree plantations. The record is not good.
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Why SGS must withdraw its certificate of Mount Elgon.
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CEPI’s grip on reality always was tenuous at best. Now it seems to have completely lost it.
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Despite being certified by the Forest Stewarship Council, Komatiland Forests’ industrial tree plantations are far from environmentally or socially responsible.
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