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Amazon: Apocalypse delayed (for now) |
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Friday, 16 December 2011 09:30 |
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The voting of the Brazilian new Forest Code, vote is postponed to 2012. The new forest proposal was passed by the Senate last week, and was set to be voted on this week by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Brazil’s National Congress. However, at the Chamber meeting, the vote that was meant to happen was postponed until March 2012, maybe to avoid to damage the green image of Brazil at the Rio+20 summit, a major environmental conference to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June.
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Asia Pulp & Paper pulping its onwn Tiger Sanctuary |
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 08:42 |
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 An Eyes on the Forest investigation exposed the reality behind the misleading advertisement of paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). The Truth Behind APP s Greenwash: a wood supplier (and sister company) of APP has been clearcutting tropical forest inside the Senepis Tiger Sanctuary in Sumatra, a sanctuary that APP advertises globally as part of its purported commitment to tiger conservation. According to Eyes on the Forest, APP, part of the Sinar Mas Group, has pulped more than two million hectares of Indonesia s tropical forests since it started paper production there in 1984.
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Vattenfall: African timber to save the climate in Germany? |
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Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:20 |
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 Vattenfall import trees from Africa so produce "green energy" in Germany. It is part of an agreement between the company and the municipality of Berlin. Vattenfall Europe and the Senate of Berlin signed in 2009 a Climate Protection Agreement aimed at a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions in Berlin by 2020, by increasing the use of biomass. But apparently Germany has not such a surplus of wood, and Vattenfall started to import it from Liberia. Creating a lot of problems there. And the biomass as "clean-energy" shows it contradictory face.
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U.N. opens door to REDD market mechanism |
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Monday, 12 December 2011 11:48 |
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 The U.N. on Sunday adopted rules that open the door for a market mechanism that could allow private investors to finance projects that stop deforestation, a move that could potentially see billions of private sector dollars invested in forestry in poor countries. The text, agreed after days of wrangling in Durban, South Africa, said market-based approaches to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) “could be developed” by the annual U.N. climate summit.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered an investigation into the alleged mass killings in Mesuji, Lampung and parts of South Sumatra, presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said. On Thursday, dozens of Mesuji residents protested in front to the House of Representatives against th constant violence and intimidation instigated by a local plantation company. Locals claimed that police and military personnel were part of the group of assailants.
