The largest area of intact lowland evergreen forests in southeast Asia is under threat.
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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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Yesterday, FSC organised a side-event at the Ninth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity in Bonn. Activists from Global Forests Coalition and World Rainforest Movement made their voices heard at the side event.
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A series of peer reviewed scientific papers confirms what local communities living near industrial tree plantations already know: industrial tree plantations suck water out of the soil and dry up streams.
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A UK company is planning to build a huge coal mine in Bangladesh. The impacts would be devastating. The Asian Development Bank is considering supporting the project anyway.
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