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
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
Monocultures continue to expand in Southeast Asia – as does the resistance to them.
By Chris Lang, WRM Bulletin 158, September 2010
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
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.
Will the plantation companies responsible for destroying villagers’ livelihoods benefit from REDD?
By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 149, December 2009.
More eucalyptus monocultures are planned for Laos.
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FAO continues to push the lie of “planted forests”.
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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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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 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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CEPI’s grip on reality always was tenuous at best. Now it seems to have completely lost it.
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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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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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