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Forest destroyer Oji Paper to carry out REDD feasibility study in Laos

29 Nov

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

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Monocultures on the March in Southeast Asia

19 Sep

Monocultures continue to expand in Southeast Asia – as does the resistance to them.

By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 158, September 2010

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How FAO helps greenwash the timber industry’s greenhouse gas emissions

24 Aug

The FAO uses tax payers’ money to promote the timber and pulp and paper industries.

By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 157, August 2010

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European Ecolabel’s greenwashing of Asia Pulp and Paper must stop

22 Apr

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?

By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 153, April 2010.

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Indonesia: Plantations, human rights and REDD

22 Dec

Will the plantation companies responsible for destroying villagers’ livelihoods benefit from REDD?

By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 149, December 2009.

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Laos: Chinese company Sun Paper plans eucalyptus monocultures

21 Jul

More eucalyptus monocultures are planned for Laos.
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Wilful ignorance: FAO and industrial tree plantations

28 Apr

FAO continues to push the lie of “planted forests”.
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Plantations, poverty and power

6 Feb

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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Plantations, poverty and power: Introduction

6 Feb

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Plantations, poverty and power: Section 1

6 Feb

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Plantations, poverty and power: Section 2

6 Feb

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Plantations, poverty and power: Section 3

6 Feb

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Plantations, poverty and power: Section 4

6 Feb

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Plantations, poverty and power: Section 5

6 Feb

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Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South

3 Feb

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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Taking the land, impoverishing the people: The pulp industry in the Mekong Region

6 Jan

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: Paper shortages, price increases, new mills and more plantations

22 Dec

Vietnam has an ever increasing area of monoculture eucalyptus plantations. Nevertheless, the country faces paper shortages every year.
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The ADB is destroying the Mekong’s forests and the planet’s climate

22 Dec

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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Did FSC pass the practical test or is it on the wrong track?

11 Nov

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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FSC: Stop certifying monoculture tree plantations!

19 Sep

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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The Confederation of European Paper Industries’ Looking-Glass World

27 Jun

CEPI’s grip on reality always was tenuous at best. Now it seems to have completely lost it.
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“Shrink”: A new campaign to stop the madness of paper over-consumption

27 Jun

Please sign the pledge to use less paper.
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Argentina: Scientists confirm that plantations dry up streams and salinise groundwater

4 Apr

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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The paper industry and the “business of climate change”

20 Dec

The paper industry claims to be addressing climate change. It isn’t. It’s making things worse.
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Swaziland: Woodmark and SAPPI ignore the lessons from a neighbouring farmer

20 Dec

The FSC certification of SAPPI’s monoculture plantations in Swaziland was only possible because Woodmark ignored the impacts.
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