“A funny place to store carbon”: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon national park, Uganda
30 Dec“A funny place to store carbon” Chapter 1
30 DecTICKING THE RIGHT BOXES OR OFFSETTING RESPONSIBILITY[1]
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“A funny place to store carbon” Chapter 3
30 DecA CHRONOLOGY OF CONFLICTS AT MOUNT ELGON
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“A funny place to store carbon” Chapter 6
30 DecFOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL CERTIFICATION
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Uganda: FSC fails to uphold Indigenous Peoples’ Rights at Mount Elgon
29 DecA Dutch tree planting project to absorb carbon in Uganda infringes local peoples’ land rights – despite being certified by FSC.
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Cambodia: Indigenous People resist the spread of industrial tree plantations
28 DecA report on a recent visit to Dak Dam commune in Mondulkiri province in the northeast of Cambodia, where the Phnong indigenous people have been protesting against a Chinese-Cambodian company’s tree plantations.
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Laos: Vietnamese companies set up rubber plantations in the south
27 DecVietnamese companies are setting up rubber plantations in the south of Laos, impacting on local people’s livelihoods and destroying forests.
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The expansion of industrial tree plantations in Cambodia and Laos
26 DecThe area of tree plantations in Cambodia and Laos is expanding rapidly, as are the impacts on villagers and their environments.
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The pulp industry and the biofuels boom
29 NovThe pulp industry in the North is keen on converting to biofuel production. But this will only drive further expansion of industrial tree plantations in the South.
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Laos: What did SmartWood know when it issued the certificate?
30 OctA leaked report earlier this year indicated serious problems in an FSC certified logging operation. FSC’s certifier, SmartWood, was oblivious to the problems – at the time the report was written, they hadn’t visited the forests they’d certified for three years.
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Indonesia: Trouble at the mill. UFS to open new wood chip mill
29 OctA new report by Down To Earth documents the problems with United Fiber System’s proposed pulp developments in Kalimantan. I met up with the author and other activists while they were in Germany in September 2006.
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The price for offsetting CO2: Displacement in Uganda
23 SepOffsetting carbon emissions may sound good to tourists with a guilty conscience. But a carbon sink tree planting project around Mount Elgon is helping deprive local people of their land and livelihoods.
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Indonesia: World Bank/WWF experts look for new ways to subsidise plantations
22 SepThe World Bank/WWF Forestry Alliance is supporting the massively destructive pulp and paper industry in Indonesia, by looking for new financial mechanisms to subsidise industrial tree plantations.
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Laos: FSC certified timber is illegal
21 SepForestry operations in Laos are producing timber which is illegal under the Lao Forestry Law. No surprises there, then. But the fact that the operations are certified under the FSC system is perhaps just a little surprising.
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“Yes to life, no to pulp mills” – protests against pulp mills in Uruguay
31 AugTens of thousands of people have protested against two planned pulp mills near Fray Bentos on the River Uruguay. A recent WRM report documents the social and environmental problems with the FSC-certified plantations which will provide raw material to the mills.
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FSC Plantations Review: Raising the bar or lowering standards?
27 JulIn 2002, FSC decided that it urgently needed to review its certification of plantations. Since then, the area of FSC certified plantations has more than doubled. FSC’s Plantations Review is now nearing its conclusion, but it has failed to address the problems associated with certifying plantations.
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Uprooted
8 JulIn the complex chain of relationships in the carbon market, no-one wants to take responsibility when things go wrong. Even when it means people are being driven out of their homes.
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Say goodbye to the forests – here comes Oji Paper
7 JunOji Paper, one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, is moving into the Mekong Region. Oji Paper has established large-scale industrial tree plantation projects in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Here and elsewhere in the world the results are deforestation and destroyed livelihoods as the company replaces villagers’ forest and common land with its monocultures.
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CIFOR report: How investors ignore serious problems with pulp mills
29 MayA new report by CIFOR analyses risk assessments and safeguard procedures carried out by financial institutions before investing in pulp mill projects. Despite the large amounts of money involved, the report concludes that assessments are far from adequate.
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Brazil: So, Mr. Liedeker, is Aracruz controversial?
28 MayForest Stewardship Council must withdraw its certificate from Aracruz immediately.
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Laos: Suez Energy International and the Houay Ho dam
27 MaySuez Energy International is avoiding its responsibility for the impacts of the Houay Ho dam.
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