The pulp industry is experimenting with genetically modified trees in Brazil.
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Brazil: Plantations, profits and GM trees
30 NovKenya: Biotechnology, eucalyptus but no GM trees
29 NovA project to plant hi-tech hybrid eucalyptus in Kenya runs into problems.
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USA: Potlatch Corporation, FSC certification and GM trees
28 NovForest Stewardship Council standards do not allow the use of GMOs. What does this mean in practice?
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Resistance is fertile: Protests against GM trees
27 NovAs the number of GM tree experiments increases, so does the strength of resistance against GM trees.
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International legislation and GM trees
26 NovDespite the risks, international legislation on GM trees is inadequate.
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Scary genetically modified trees
15 NovPresentation at TimberWatch Plantations Seminar: Durban, South Africa, 8 October 2004.
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Emissions trade instead of climate protection
1 NovWhy planting trees does not compensate for flying
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China: Genetically modified madness
27 AugChina started commercial planting of GM trees in 2002. Since then, no one is even monitoring where the trees have been planted.
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Planted soldiers. Petition against genetically modified trees
1 AugForestry scientists argue that the only way to test GM trees is by planting them commercially. This is the precautionary principle in reverse.
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Laos: Ongoing problems with the Asian Development Bank’s “successful” Nam Leuk dam
21 JulThe ADB claims that the Nam Leuk dam is a successful project. Recent research in Laos indicates serious ongoing problems for villagers affected by the project.
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The carbon spin doctors: How the World Bank explains emissions trading to journalists
16 Jul At a workshop at the Carbon Expo in Cologne, the World Bank explained why it is creating a new commodity: carbon.
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China: Restructuring the paper sector to suit a globalised industry
29 JunThe Chinese pulp and paper industry is being restructured, at the expense of rural farmers.
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Genetically engineered trees: The pulp industry’s dangerous “solution”
28 JunThe pulp industry’s solution to polluting pulp mills is even worse than the problem.
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Plantations 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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Genetically modified trees cause memory loss
26 MayThe United Nations Forum on Forests failed (once again) to discuss GM trees.
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Laos: US war on drugs is leading to increased poverty
25 MayThe US is supporting a drug programme in Laos which is impoverishing thousands of people.
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Vietnam: Government repression of Indigenous Peoples
24 MayThe Vietnamese government responded brutally to peaceful demonstrations by Indigenous Peoples in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in April.
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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.
Hot air, fake science and genetically modified trees
26 MarGM trees enter the Kyoto Protocol’s “clean development mechanism”.
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Laos: Dams and the forgotten people of the Boloven Plateau
25 MarIn 2001, the Belgian company Tractebel bought the Houay Dam in south Laos. For the Heuny and Jrou indigenous people the dam has been a disaster. Tractebel has so far ignored their problems.
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Canada: Politics, plantations and participation
1 MarJaakko Pöyry’s role in promoting industrial plantations in New Brunswick.
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Thailand: SmartWood suspends FSC certification of two plantations
22 DecSmartWood has suspended the Forest Stewardship Council certification of two of Forest Industry Organisation’s teak plantations.
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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.
Banking on the forests: The politics of the ADB’s involvement in Asia’s forests
1 NovPublished in Guerrero, D. (ed.) (2003) A Handbook on the Asian Development Bank: The ADB and its operations in Asia and the Pacific Region. Focus Asien no. 16. Asienhaus, Essen. November 2003.
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