The FAO uses tax payers’ money to promote the timber and pulp and paper industries.
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24 August 2010
How FAO helps greenwash the timber industry’s greenhouse gas emissions
24 June 2010
What is carbon trading for?
Carbon traders do not pretend that carbon trading will reduce emissions. But if carbon trading is not supposed to reduce emissions, what is it for?
22 April 2010
European Ecolabel’s greenwashing of Asia Pulp and Paper must stop
APP is one of the most controversial pulp and paper companies on the planet. So why have two of its paper products been awarded the EU Ecolabel?
26 January 2010
Indonesia: Government proposes 21 million hectares of plantations to meet climate targets
Indonesia’s plans for massive plantation expansion make little sense in terms of addressing either deforestation or climate change.
22 December 2009
Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD
Will the plantation companies responsible for destroying villagers’ livelihoods benefit from REDD?
18 December 2009
REDD text an insult to Indigenous Peoples
Whilst the latest Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) text doesn’t have the words “Made in the USA” anywhere on it, it should have.
14 December 2009
REDD, REDD+, REDD++, REDD and bacon, sausage and spam …
Getting tired of the ever expanding REDD plans? Me too.
30 November 2009
Greenwashing the green desert in Copenhagen
The UN definition of forests must exclude industrial tree plantations.
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25 August 2009
Destroying with one hand, taking with the other: Biomass, REDD and forests
Why does the UN’s latest scheme to save the forests not address the drivers of deforestation?
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21 July 2009
Laos: Chinese company Sun Paper plans eucalyptus monocultures
More eucalyptus monocultures are planned for Laos.
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28 June 2009
The gaping chasm between climate science and climate negotiations
Climate scientists and climate negotiators might as well live on different planets.
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18 June 2009
Cambodia’s Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities
The largest area of intact lowland evergreen forests in southeast Asia is under threat.
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28 April 2009
Wilful ignorance: FAO and industrial tree plantations
FAO continues to push the lie of “planted forests”.
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21 February 2009
Bath tubs, forests, carbon trading and climate change
Why trading the carbon stored in forests will not help address runaway climate change.
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6 February 2009
Plantations, poverty and power
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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3 February 2009
Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
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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6 January 2009
Taking the land, impoverishing the people: The pulp industry in the Mekong Region
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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22 December 2008
Vietnam: Paper shortages, price increases, new mills and more plantations
Vietnam has an ever increasing area of monoculture eucalyptus plantations. Nevertheless, the country faces paper shortages every year.
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22 December 2008
The ADB is destroying the Mekong’s forests and the planet’s climate
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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