Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
3 FebAnnouncing 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 JanDespite 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 DecVietnam 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 DecThrough 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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Dams on the Mekong mainstream would destroy fisheries for millions
20 NovBuilding dams on the Mekong mainstream will destroy the Mekong’s fisheries and subject millions of people to food shortages and poverty.
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Did FSC pass the practical test or is it on the wrong track?
11 NovBy 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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Why certification of agrofuels won’t work
17 OctThe massive expansion of agrofuels is responsible for forest destruction, livelihood loss and increased food costs. Certification of agrofuels will do nothing to address the problems.
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FSC: Stop certifying monoculture tree plantations!
19 SepFSC 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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Uganda: Thousands of Indigenous People evicted from FSC-certified Mount Elgon National Park
27 JunWhy SGS must withdraw its certificate of Mount Elgon.
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The Confederation of European Paper Industries’ Looking-Glass World
27 JunCEPI’s grip on reality always was tenuous at best. Now it seems to have completely lost it.
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South Africa: A visit to Komatiland Forests’ industrial tree monocultures
30 MayDespite being certified by the Forest Stewarship Council, Komatiland Forests’ industrial tree plantations are far from environmentally or socially responsible.
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FSC’s greenwash at the Convention on Biodiversity
29 MayYesterday, FSC organised a side-event at the Ninth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity in Bonn. Activists from Global Forests Coalition and World Rainforest Movement made their voices heard at the side event.
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Argentina: Scientists confirm that plantations dry up streams and salinise groundwater
4 AprA 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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Bangladesh: Phulbari coal mine – “losses beyond compensation”
2 AprA UK company is planning to build a huge coal mine in Bangladesh. The impacts would be devastating. The Asian Development Bank is considering supporting the project anyway.
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Greenwash and How to Encourage it: One World Trust studies what ADB says, not what it does
21 MarOne World Trust’s “Global Accountability Report” looks only at policies and not at what the organisations analysed do in practice.
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Belgium: Field trials planned of GM poplar trees for ethanol
29 FebWhy are scientists researching this dangerous, untested false solution to climate change, when other real solutions already exist?
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Uganda: Why Is FSC Certifying Land Disputes and Human Rights Abuses at Mount Elgon?
28 FebHow many more people will be killed at Mount Elgon before FSC realises that the national park should not be FSC-certified?
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Increased poverty, land conflicts and deforestation: The Asian Development Bank’s plantations record
27 FebThe Asian Development Bank’s forestry sector loans have led to increased deforestation and increased poverty. They have exacerbated conflicts over land, replaced villagers’ common lands with monocultures and destroyed local livelihoods. But the Bank appears structurally incapable of learning from its mistakes.
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The Convention on Biodiversity, GM trees and paper consumption
5 FebThe CBD report on GM trees recommends a precautionary approach to the use of GM trees. A ban would be better.
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Aotearoa/New Zealand: Scion’s GE trees cut down!
31 JanScion’s trial plot of GE trees has been damaged by protesters (or perhaps by rabbits with spades).
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The paper industry and the “business of climate change”
20 DecThe paper industry claims to be addressing climate change. It isn’t. It’s making things worse.
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