The area of industrial tree plantations in the Mekong Region is expanding. The pulp and paper industry benefits from these plantations, while the costs are paid by local communities.
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Introduction
1 OctADB’s draft forest policy: The politics of participation
1 OctThe ADB likes to talk about “stakeholders”, “participation” and “consultation”, but the Bank’s review of its forest policy demonstrates that these words have no meaning within the Bank.
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Advance Agro Pulp Mill, Thailand: Eucalyptus, encroachment and deforestation
1 OctAdvance Agro is Thailand’s largest pulp and paper manufacturer. The company claims to be ‘green’, but local communities living with the impacts of the plantations and pollution from the pulp mill question such claims.
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ADB’s plantation projects in Laos
1 OctForests are being cleared to make way for ADB-funded plantations in Laos. Villagers are already seeing the impacts.
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Land concessions in Cambodia
1 OctThe Cambodian government has handed out hundreds of thousands of hectares for industrial tree plantations. The results have been disastrous for the forests, local people and for workers employed by the plantation companies.
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The expansion of the pulp and paper industry in Vietnam
1 OctThe Vietnam Paper Corporation has a US$1 billion plan to expand the country’s pulp and paper production capacity.
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Company profile: Jaakko Pöyry
1 OctA profile of the world’s biggest (and most notorious) forestry consulting firm.
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Carbon dumping in the Mekong region
1 OctHow the North is attempting to evade both its responsibility for global warming and the need to reduce emissions at home.
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The certification of Thailand’s Forest Industry Organisation
1 OctIn June 2001, SmartWood gave Thailand’s Forest Industry Organisation the FSC ‘green’ certificate. It’s difficult to imagine how they came to the conclusion that FIO is in any way ‘green’.
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Laos: Vietnamese consortium plans to build six dams in Laos
25 SepVietnam’s dam building boom spreads into neighbouring Laos, despite the serious impact of dams already built in southern Laos.
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Smartwood’s Certification of the Forest Industry Organisation in Thailand: Why FSC Should Revoke the Certificate
28 AugA report published by WRM as part of the book Certifying the Uncertifiable: FSC Certification of Tree Plantations in Thailand and Brazil.
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SmartWood’s certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – Introduction
28 AugINTRODUCTION
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SmartWood’s certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – FIO’s history
28 Aug2. FIO’S HISTORY
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SmartWood’s certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – The background to the certification
28 Aug3. THE BACKGROUND TO THE CERTIFICATION: SCC NATURA AND THE SWEDISH CONNECTION
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SmartWood’s certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – Enter SmartWood
28 Aug4. THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS: ENTER SMARTWOOD
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SmartWood’s certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – Compliance with FSC Principles and Criteria
28 Aug5. COMPLIANCE WITH FSC PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA
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Smartwood’s Certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – Conclusion
28 Aug6. CONCLUSION: FSC SHOULD REVOKE FIO’S CERTIFICATE
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SmartWood’s certification of the Forest Industry Organisation – References
28 AugREFERENCES
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Vietnam: Na Hang dam – the reality of sustainable development?
25 AugOne of the UNDP’s projects in Vietnam is the management of the Na Hang Nature Reserve. Forests in the Nature Reserve are being bulldozed to make way for a hydropower dam, yet UNDP remains strangely quiet.
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Thailand: Certified firm is in breach of FSC principles
25 JulForest Industry Organisation’s certificate remains in place, despite the fact that the firm is in breach of FSC rules.
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Laos: French company pulls the plug on Nam Theun 2
24 JulIn July 2003, Electricité de France announced that it was pulling out of the Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos.
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Banking on deforestation: Asian Development Bank support to industrial forestry in Lao PDR
1 JulThe ADB is playing an increasingly important – and destructive – role in Laos, promoting industrial tree plantations at the expense of community forests, swiddens, grazing land and commons.
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Vietnam: Unique biodiversity threatened by World Bank-funded cement plant
25 JunIFC is funding a cement plant, partly owned by Swiss company Holcim, in Hon Chong in the southwest of Vietnam. The EIA makes almost no mention of the plant’s impact on biodiversity.
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Putting profits before people
28 MayA critique of the ADB’s June 2002 draft forest policy: ‘Forests for all and forever’. Sent to ADB President Tadao Chino, by Friends of the Earth International.
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ADB’s draft forest policy: Putting profits before people
25 MayADB’s June 2002 draft forest policy is fundamentally flawed.
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