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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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Please sign the pledge to use less paper.
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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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One World Trust’s “Global Accountability Report” looks only at policies and not at what the organisations analysed do in practice.
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Why are scientists researching this dangerous, untested false solution to climate change, when other real solutions already exist?
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How many more people will be killed at Mount Elgon before FSC realises that the national park should not be FSC-certified?
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The Asian Development Bank’s forestry sector loans have led to increased deforestation and increased poverty. They have exacerbated conflicts over land, replaced villagers’ common lands with monocultures and destroyed local livelihoods. But the Bank appears structurally incapable of learning from its mistakes.
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The CBD report on GM trees recommends a precautionary approach to the use of GM trees. A ban would be better.
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Scion’s trial plot of GE trees has been damaged by protesters (or perhaps by rabbits with spades).
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The paper industry claims to be addressing climate change. It isn’t. It’s making things worse.
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The FSC certification of SAPPI’s monoculture plantations in Swaziland was only possible because Woodmark ignored the impacts.
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The pulp industry wants genetically modified trees with less lignin. The industry’s “solution” will make things worse.
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ArborGen’s GM tree research in New Zealand, Brazil and the US poses a serious threat to people and forests. Yet the regulatory authorities in all three countries are ignoring the risks.
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The European Forest Institute is in favour of research into GM trees - despite an EFI discussion paper which points out the risks and dangers.
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Kenya’s biggest and most polluting pulp and paper mill, which is partly owned by the IFC, is set to expand.
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Recent studies of dams in Laos ignore the impacts downstream in Cambodia.
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What, exactly, is FSC’s position on GM trees?
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An interview I did on New Internationalist Radio. Chris Richards of New Internationalist asked the questions.

The programme also featured Cam Walker of Friends of the Earth talking about oil palm and climate change, followed by Tom Athanasiou of EcoEquity talking about climate change. The full version can be heard here.

A Swedish scientist is leading the way in GE tree research into flowering. The risks to the world’s forests are enormous.
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Gunns proposed pulp mill would not only be damaging to Tasmania’s environment. It is also trashing the democratic process.
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Press Release: Urgewald targets the pulp industry in new report and website (6 August 2007).
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