The pulp industry’s solution to polluting pulp mills is even worse than the problem.
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Genetically engineered trees: The pulp industry’s dangerous “solution”
28 JunPlantations are not forests – even when they are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council
1 JunFSC certifies industrial tree plantations as well managed forests. This is a fraud – plantations are not forests.
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Consulting destruction
25 AprLonggena Ginting (FoEI), Tove Selin (Finnish ECA-watch), Larry Lohmann (The Cornerhouse) and me talking about the way Finnish companies promote the destruction caused by the pulp and paper industry around the world. I talk about Jaakko Pöyry in Indonesia.
Canada: Politics, plantations and participation
1 MarJaakko Pöyry’s role in promoting industrial plantations in New Brunswick.
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Laos: Ecosecurities helps ADB provide carbon subsidies to the pulp industry
25 NovThe Asian Development Bank’s big plans for plantations in Laos might include carbon dumps.
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1 OctThe area of industrial tree plantations in the Mekong Region is expanding. The pulp and paper industry benefits from these plantations, while the costs are paid by local communities.
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ADB’s draft forest policy: The politics of participation
1 OctThe ADB likes to talk about “stakeholders”, “participation” and “consultation”, but the Bank’s review of its forest policy demonstrates that these words have no meaning within the Bank.
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Advance Agro Pulp Mill, Thailand: Eucalyptus, encroachment and deforestation
1 OctAdvance Agro is Thailand’s largest pulp and paper manufacturer. The company claims to be ‘green’, but local communities living with the impacts of the plantations and pollution from the pulp mill question such claims.
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ADB’s plantation projects in Laos
1 OctForests are being cleared to make way for ADB-funded plantations in Laos. Villagers are already seeing the impacts.
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Land concessions in Cambodia
1 OctThe 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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The expansion of the pulp and paper industry in Vietnam
1 OctThe Vietnam Paper Corporation has a US$1 billion plan to expand the country’s pulp and paper production capacity.
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Company profile: Jaakko Pöyry
1 OctA profile of the world’s biggest (and most notorious) forestry consulting firm.
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Carbon dumping in the Mekong region
1 OctHow the North is attempting to evade both its responsibility for global warming and the need to reduce emissions at home.
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The certification of Thailand’s Forest Industry Organisation
1 OctIn June 2001, SmartWood gave Thailand’s Forest Industry Organisation the FSC ‘green’ certificate. It’s difficult to imagine how they came to the conclusion that FIO is in any way ‘green’.
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Thailand: Eucalyptus, encroachment, deforestation and pollution linked to pulp and paper company
10 MayAdvance Agro claims to be an environmentally friendly company. It isn’t.
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Laos: Secrets, lies and tree plantations
25 MarThe Asian Development Bank’s plantation plans in Laos are taking place almost completely in secret.
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Brazil: Stora Enso and Aracruz plan the world’s biggest pulp mill
23 FebTwo pulp giants get together to create a pulp monster.
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Vietnam: Construction of Kontum pulp and paper mill suspended
25 JanProvincial authorities announce the suspension of construction of a new pulp and paper mill.
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