The Asian Development Bank is promoting plantations in Laos, through its US$11.2 million “Industrial Tree Plantation Project”.
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Laos: Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
26 NovVietnam: Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank (2)
25 NovChristopher Gibbs of the World Bank office in Hanoi, requested that WRM publish his response to article on Vietnam in WRM Bulletin 51. Mr Gibbs’ letter is reproduced in full below, followed by my reply.
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Vietnam: Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank
25 OctThe World Bank is funding a mangrove reforestation project in the south of Vietnam. Rather than looking at the root causes of deforestation, however, the Bank blames villagers.
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Laos: Planned Nam Theun 2 dam leads to increased logging
25 SepInstead of providing independent advice on the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam, the International Advisory Group has become a promoter of the project, despite documenting the impacts that project-related logging is having on the forests nearby.
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Ecuador: Commercial exploitation of forest peoples
25 JulAventis CropScience hopes to greenwash its image through sponsoring an exhibition in Frankfurt about Indigenous People and forests in Ecuador.
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Cambodia: The unfulfilled promises of an oil palm plantation
25 JunMong Reththy Company’s oil palm plantation has failed to provide work for people who moved from Phnom Penh to live in the company’s village.
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Vietnam: Social and environmental impacts from export-oriented coffee production
25 MayVietnam’s coffee boom resulted in large-scale clearing of forests.
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Strangling the life-source of million: China dams the Mekong
24 MaySomething like 60 million people have been evicted from their homes to make way for China’s 22,000 dams. China is adding to the toll by building a series of dams on the Mekong.
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Vietnam: Carbon sink plantations to avoid emission reductions in Australia
25 AprThe Australian government is funding plantations in Vietnam instead of reducing emissions at home.
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Laos: Cutting the trees to save the forest
25 MarFor the last decade a military run logging company has been logging the 450 square kilometre reservoir area behind the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam.
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Laos: Correspondence with the World Bank about Nam Theun 2
25 MarHow the World Bank avoids giving straight answers to straight questions.
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Cambodia: Eucalyptus plantations and pulp production threaten forests and rivers
24 MarCambodia’s most destructive logging firm, Pheapimex, is planning a vast eucalyptus plantation.
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The case of Aotearoa/New Zealand
25 FebConflict of interest, GM trees and FSC certification of Fletcher Challenge Forests’ plantations.
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Asian Development Bank subsidising deforestation in Laos
24 FebThe Asian Development Bank is replacing forests with monoculture tree plantations.
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Deforestation in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
3 JanPublished in Vajpeyi, D.K. (ed.) (2001) Deforestation, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis. Praeger: Westport, Connecticut and London, pp. 111–137.
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Vietnam: Road-building threatens Phong Nha Nature Reserve
25 DecThe Vietnamese government’s planned road building programme threatens an area under consideration by UNESCO for potential World Heritage Status.
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Laos: Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
25 NovA conflict of interest? The Burapha Group profits from the ADB-funded advice that Burapha’s consultants give to the Lao government.
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Blinded by science: The invention of scientific forestry and its influence in the Mekong Region
1 NovScientific forestry emerged in the mid-eighteenth century in Europe and has had a pervasive influence in the Mekong region.
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Oil palm plantation in Cambodia
25 OctThe Phnom Penh authorities moved almost 100 families from a squat in Phnom Penh to work on Mong Reththy Company’s oil palm plantation. Few have found work.
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Whose trees? Vietnam’s five million hectare “reforestation” programme
25 SepVietnam is planning a huge increase in its area of industrial tree plantations.
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Thailand: Massive eucalyptus plantations planned
25 JulThailand’s two largest pulp and paper producers are planning to expand.
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The National Hydropower Plan Study: Planning and damming in Vietnam
1 MarFunded by Norway and Sweden, the National Hydropower Plan Study will result in more dams being built in Vietnam, more rivers destroyed and yet more local people’s livelihoods destroyed. The beneficiaries are Swedish and Norwegian consulting firms.
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Vietnam’s National Hydropower Plan Study: Building political infrastructure and dams
18 JanPart of a campaign by some organisations to use whatever strategies are necessary to build dams anywhere in the world, especially in developing countries.
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Nordic involvement in the Song Hinh hydroelectric project, Vietnam
2 DecFunding for the Song Hinh dam came from Swedish aid and Nordic banks. Sweden’s decision to fund the project was based on a flawed study carried out by Jaakko Pöyry. A series of Nordic consultants benefitted from contracts on the project.
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Se Kong-Se San and Nam Theun: Too many dam studies
20 NovConsultants for the Asian Development Bank are to recommend at least six dams for further study. Local communities are excluded from the process.
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