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		<title>David Nilsson: Carbon Cowboy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, I have written three posts on REDD-Monitor about an Australian &#8220;businessman&#8221; called David Nilsson and his activities in Peru. I suggested that he should receive the award of Australian carbon cowboy of the year, after his interactions with the Matsés Indigenous Peoples. They are reposted here in full: 3rd May 2011: AIDESEP and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=1302&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REDD-Monitor&#8217;s May 2011 round-up: Watching REDD unravel</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2011/05/28/redd-monitors-may-2011-round-up-watching-redd-unravel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 09:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A round-up of everything you need to know in the world of REDD this month. Well, almost everything. By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 166, May 2011 After almost five month&#8217;s of dithering, Indonesia&#8217;s two-year forest moratorium started this month. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faced a choice between two options: one version of the moratorium would [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=1229&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forest destroyer Oji Paper to carry out REDD feasibility study in Laos</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2010/11/29/forest-destroyer-oji-paper-to-carry-out-redd-feasibility-study-in-laos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oji Paper has cleared large areas of forest in Laos to make way for its industrial tree plantations. Now the company hopes to get REDD funding for its monocultures. By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 160, November 2010 In 2005, a Japanese company called Oji Paper took over a project to plant 50,000 hectares of mainly [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=1192&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monocultures on the March in Southeast Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monocultures continue to expand in Southeast Asia &#8211; as does the resistance to them. By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 158, September 2010 &#8220;The crucial characteristic of monocultures is that they do not merely displace alternatives, they destroy their own basis. They are neither tolerant of other systems, nor are they able to reproduce themselves sustainably.&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=1158&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REDD text an insult to Indigenous Peoples</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2009/12/18/redd-text-an-insult-to-indigenous-peoples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst the latest Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) text doesn’t have the words &#8220;Made in the USA&#8221; anywhere on it, it should have. By Chris Lang, Published in Climate Chronicle No. 5, Transnational Institute’s COP-15 newspaper, 17 December 2009. The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperation Action produced a REDD text [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=1029&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REDD, REDD+, REDD++, REDD and bacon, sausage and spam &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2009/12/14/redd-redd-redd-redd-and-bacon-sausage-and-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting tired of the ever expanding REDD plans? Me too. By Chris Lang, Published in Climate Chronicle No. 3, Transnational Institute&#8217;s COP-15 newspaper, 11 December 2009 The basic concept of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is simple: governments, companies, local people and/or Indigenous Peoples in the South should be rewarded for protecting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia&#8217;s Prey Long forest is &#8220;equivalent to life itself&#8221; for local communities</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2009/06/18/cambodias-prey-long-forest-is-equivalent-to-life-itself-for-local-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The largest area of intact lowland evergreen forests in southeast Asia is under threat. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 142, May 2009. Prey Long is the largest area of intact lowland evergreen forest remaining in southeast Asia. It covers an area of about 3,600 square kilometres in the north of Cambodia. The name, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=977&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia: Indigenous Jarai take out legal case to reclaim their land</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2007/03/28/cambodia-indigenous-jarai-take-out-legal-case-to-reclaim-their-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keat Kolney, a Cambodian businesswoman with very close links to the government, has tricked villagers in Ratanakiri province out of their land. Villagers are fighting back through the courts. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 116, March 2007. Loss of land and loss of access to natural resources is fuelling a livelihood and economic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=475&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laos: Vietnamese companies set up rubber plantations in the south</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2006/12/27/laos-vietnamese-companies-set-up-rubber-plantations-in-the-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnamese companies are setting up rubber plantations in the south of Laos, impacting on local people’s livelihoods and destroying forests. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 113 December 2006. In July 2004, a business delegation from the Vietnam General Rubber Corporation visited Laos. At the time only a small area was planted with rubber [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=211&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The expansion of industrial tree plantations in Cambodia and Laos</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2006/12/26/the-expansion-of-industrial-tree-plantations-in-cambodia-and-laos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The area of tree plantations in Cambodia and Laos is expanding rapidly, as are the impacts on villagers and their environments. By Chris Lang. Published in Focus Asien, December 2006. Notes from a trip in November 2006 &#8220;All villagers understand the need to protect the forest. We can&#8217;t live without it.&#8221; The speaker is a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&#038;blog=99550&#038;post=425&#038;subd=chrislang&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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