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7/4/2013
Neste Oil, a Finnish energy giant, has announced a new "no deforestation" policy [PDF] for sourcing palm oil. The company, which is one of the world's largest buyers of palm oil, had faced criticism from environmentalists for purchasing palm oil ...
22/3/2013
On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the
Forests (1), the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and more than 300 signatories call on the General Assembly and UN Institutions and Initiatives ...
14/3/2013
The coalition of Indonesian NGOs on
forests and climate today called for urgent action to strengthen and extend the two-year moratorium on deforestation which expires on 20 May. The moratorium has been weakened by lobbying from industry and even ...
14/1/2013
Biofuel refinery in new industrial zone in Tapachula, an exporting city on the coast of Chiapas. With plans for expansion, there is a coffee plant to its left and an oil refinery being built on its right. Mexico is currently laying the foundation ...
26/9/2012
Greenpeace is dedicated to ending deforestation and preventing catastrophic climate change. We are often recognized for putting our lives and freedoms on the line to accomplish these goals. In the U.S. alone, Greenpeace is campaigning to save ...
31/7/2012
NASA satellites recently between April 1 and June 30 have picked up extensive signals confirming what surfaced since quite a long time ago. The signals specify potential deforestation across large parts of the tropics-encompassing Columbia, ...
19/4/2012
Africa’s
forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on
forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's
forests necessary to mitigate global climate ...
5/3/2012
In the runup to June's Rio+20 Earth Summit, sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a hot topic. First proposed by the Columbian government, SDGs are now regarded by many as possible concrete outcomes from a conference whose prospects for ...
17/9/2011
President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono has issued a decree providing additional time for a presidential task force to establish a long-awaited agency to implement a two-year
forest moratorium. The project has been funded by the Norwegian government ...
1/9/2011
In Mayan cosmology, thetree, with its elephantine, silver-grey trunk that towers above the jungle, is the tree of life, shoring up the corners of the sky and sending its roots deep into the underworld. In the centuries following the conquest ...
15/7/2011
Kahindo Sipora Shemutambo, 58, a member of a Bambuti, or pygmy community, stands with her goat near the village of Mugunga, just west of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, on August 27, 2010. Dislodged from their traditional hunter-gatherer ...
31/5/2011
The tropical
forest conservation plan, known as
REDD, has the potential to significantly reduce deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. Photograph: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
It could be the cheapest way to save the planet ...
31/5/2011
2.5-billion-ha carbon map shows
forests store 250B tons of carbon
Tropical
forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of carbon –; more than 30 years' worth of current emissions from fossil fuels use –; ...
21/5/2011
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday signed a two-year moratorium on logging in primary
forests and dredging in peatlands to unlock up to $1 billion in seed funding from the government of Norway that could help the country ...
20/5/2011
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday finally signed a policy banning the conversion of primary
forest and peatland for two years as part of a government pledge to combat climate change through reducing deforestation.
With the ...
15/5/2011
The Native Federation of the Río Madre de Dios and Tributaries (FENAMAD) issued a statement protesting that the state company PeruPetro has demarcated three new oil exploration blocs in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios. The new ...
9/5/2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the successor states to the European colonial empires of sub-Saharan Africa, contains staggering natural resources -- including the second largest remaining block of intact rainforests one earth. On the ...
29/4/2011
Indonesia's low carbon development strategy will not impede the palm oil industry's growth said a key Indonesian climate official during a meeting with leaders from the country's palm oil industry.
During a meeting on Thursday, Kuntoro ...
27/2/2011
Hotspots of Carbon Confusion in Indonesia Threaten to Warm the World More Quickly
Indonesia has promised to become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, the president committed to a 26% reduction in greenhouse gas ...
9/2/2011
Progress over the past 25 years in recognizing indigenous peoples' rights to land and resources has been interrupted by a worldwide commodity boom, argues a new report published by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI).
The report, ...
7/2/2011
Efforts to preserve Indonesia's rainforest, in the face of international pressure, look set to accelerate a decline in the plantation expansion which has driven the country to top rank in palm oil.
Provincial authorities have already ...
6/2/2011
As UN Declares International Year of
Forests, Groups Demand Solutions to Root Causes of Deforestation
Insist Indigenous &
Forest Peoples' Rights Must Be at the Heart of
Forest Protection
At the launch of the High Level segment ...
13/1/2011
FORGET ANY spin. In the end, the recent UN gathering on climate change in Cancún repeated Copenhagen`s failure in 2009. Again, the world`s industrial economies refused to set new binding reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, despite dire ...
12/1/2011
The delay of a scheduled moratorium on
forest conversion that was supposed to be enforced at the beginning of the year is the result of lobbying by businesses operating in the country’s
forests, an official says.
Head of the presidential ...
11/1/2011
Will negotiators in Mexico finalize a binding decision on
REDD+? What, if any, progress will be made toward an overall climate change agreement? Find out as RECOFTC reports from the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP16 in Cancun, ...