The ADB’s proposed new forest policy is shrouded in secrecy. No surprises there, then.
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Secrets and Lies: The Asian Development Bank’s new forest policy
29 Jun“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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Laos: World Bank finances the Nam Theun 2 dam regardless of its own policies
14 AprOn 31 March 2005, the World Bank’s board approved US$270 million in guarantees and loans for the Nam Theun 2 dam. It did so in breach of its own policies.
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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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Legal and illegal logging in Vietnam
20 MarA new report by Pamela McElwee, “You say illegal, I say legal”, explores the issues behind illegal logging in Vietnam.
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Laos: Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption
19 MarThe World Bank claims that it has investigated corruption in the Nam Theun 2 project. If everything is so squeaky clean, why won’t the Bank release the reports of its investigations?
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GE Trees: No solution to climate change
1 MarThe UN has included GE trees as a possible means of combatting climate change. It won’t work.
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GM trees and the Kyoto Protocol
28 JanAn interview I did on 3CR Community Radio Melbourne. Adam Breasley asked the questions.
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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Large dams, climate change and forced evictions
23 JanDam building companies are looking to gain new subsidies through carbon financing. At the same time, they refuse to avoid projects which involve forced evictions.
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Climate change negotiations: Time for a change
22 JanWhy is the US so influential in climate negotiations? A report from the international climate negotiations in Buenos Aires, December 2004.
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Genetically modified trees: The ultimate threat to forests
20 DecA report by Chris Lang. Published by World Rainforest Movement and Friends of the Earth International, December 2004.
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Genetically modified trees: A step forward . . . in the wrong direction
20 DecBy Ricardo Carrere and Simone Lovera
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Genetically modified trees: Introduction
20 DecBy Chris Lang, published by WRM and FoEI, December 2004
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The Asian Development Bank’s proposed new forest policy: why should we care?
3 DecPresentation at WRM/WALHI Southeast Asia Regional Meeting on Oil Palm and Pulpwood Plantations.
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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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Does the World Bank have a position on GM trees?
1 DecDo World Bank policies allow the Bank to fund GM tree plantations? No one at the Bank seems to know.
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