A new occasional series in the WRM Bulletin, profiling a series of actors in the pulp and paper industry.
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Pulp Inc. The corporate power of the pulp and paper industry
26 AprCreating poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and industrial tree plantations
25 AprThe ADB’s involvement in tree plantations in Laos has increased poverty, replaced villagers’ land with monocultures and destroyed livelihoods.
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New WRM report on industrial tree plantations in Cambodia
26 MarA new WRM report records the impact of two companies’ tree plantations on local communities.
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Laos: Indian and Japanese pulp giants move in
25 MarAssisted by the ADB, Japanese and Indian pulp corporations are taking over thousands of hectares of villagers’ forests, commons and farmlands in Laos.
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Laos: ADB’s eucalyptus plantations increase poverty
28 FebIn a December 2005 report, the ADB’s Operations Evaluations Department confirmed that the ADB’s industrial tree plantations project has increased poverty. Yet only one month after the OED published its report the Bank announced another tree plantations project in Laos.
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Brazil: Quilombolas protest against Aracruz Cellulose
27 FebIn November 2005, hundreds of quilombolas marched through São Mateus in protest against the pulp company Aracruz.
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Veracel pulp mill, Brazil: The impact of industrial tree plantations on land rights and livelihoods
21 FebThe European Investment Bank has given two loans to the Aracruz-Stora Enso joint venture Veracel pulp mill in Brazil. The Bank ignored the impacts on employment, local people and their environment.
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Brazil: Public subsidies, private gain – EIB and the Veracel pulp mill
9 FebPresentation at the launch of the report: The European Investment Bank in the South. In whose interest? by Jaroslava Colajacomo, published by CRBM, CEE Bankwatch Network, Friends of the Earth International and WEED. 8 February 2006, Brussels.
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Indonesia: Deutsche Bank pulls out of UFS pulp project
24 JanAustria’s Raiffeisen Zentralbank and Andritz should follow Deutsche Bank’s example and pull out of all involvement with UFS’s socially and environmentally destructive pulp plans.
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South Africa: Plantations – Green gold or green deserts?
23 DecResearch by John Blessing Karumbidza of the University of KwaZulu-Natal reveals the impacts that industrial tree plantations have on rural communities in South Africa.
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Indonesia: The insatiable appetite of the pulp industry
22 DecNot satisfied with destroying vast areas of forests on Sumatra, the pulp industry in Indonesia is expanding to Kalimantan.
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Cambodia: Plantations and the death of the forests
21 DecThe Cambodian government has handed out hundreds of thousands of hectares for industrial tree plantations. The results have been disastrous for the forests, local people and for workers employed by the plantation companies.
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South Africa: Sappi Saiccor to expand its polluting pulp mill?
29 NovI attended Sappi’s November public meeting about the proposed expansion of its Saiccor mill. It was a sham.
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Brazil: Worked to death by Aracruz
28 NovA recent report by Alacri De’Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek and Luiz Alberto Soares documents that instead of providing jobs, Aracruz destroys work, livelihoods and health.
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Brazil: Aracruz – Sustainability or business as usual?
28 OctIn May 2005, Indigenous People cleared eucalyptus plantations and marked out more than 11,000 hectares of their land as part of their thirty year struggle to reclaim their land from Brazil’s pulp giant Aracruz Celulose. Yet UK-based consulting firm SustainAbility claims that Aracruz has a “long-standing commitment to sustainability”.
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Indonesia: The health impacts of living near Indah Kiat’s pulp and paper mills
27 AugPollution from Indah Kiat’s massive pulp mills has enormous impacts on the health of people living near to the mill.
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Australia: Nippon Paper to green in Tasmania (and elsewhere)?
12 JulTell Nippon Paper what you think about its raw material purchasing policy – just don’t expect too much.
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“Open for business”: How the International Finance Corporation subsidises the pulp and paper industry
28 JunIFC uses tax-payers’ money to support pulp and paper companies, with little pretence of even attempting to relieve poverty.
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Australia: Gunns plans massive new pulp mill in Tasmania
18 MayGunns, Tasmania’s biggest logging and woodchip exporting company, is planning to expand its operations with a new pulp mill. The implications for Tasmania’s people and forests are devastating.
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Brazil: World Bank loan to Aracruz is in breach of bank forest policy
21 MarThe World Bank’s International Finance Corporation gave a US$50 million loan to Aracruz in November 2004. The loan is in breach of the World Bank’s forest policy.
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Swaziland: The impact of 50 years of industrial forestry
24 JanA new report by Wally Menne of the TimberWatch Coalition in South Africa documents the social and environmental impacts of industrial tree plantations and the pulp and paper industry.
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Social and environmental impacts of industrial tree plantations
2 DecPresentation at WRM/WALHI Southeast Asia Regional Meeting on Oil Palm and Pulpwood Plantations, 29 November 2004.
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Brazil: Plantations, profits and GM trees
30 NovThe pulp industry is experimenting with genetically modified trees in Brazil.
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Kenya: Biotechnology, eucalyptus but no GM trees
29 NovA project to plant hi-tech hybrid eucalyptus in Kenya runs into problems.
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China: Restructuring the paper sector to suit a globalised industry
29 JunThe Chinese pulp and paper industry is being restructured, at the expense of rural farmers.
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