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24/5/2013
An American company has halted work on a controversial
palm oil project in Cameroon due to opposition from local communities and environmentalists, reports Reuters.
Herakles Capital, a U.S.-based investment firm, said it has stopped ...
16/5/2013
Palm oil touches our lives every time we take a trip to the supermarket.
Palm oil and its derivatives are used in a ubiquitous array of packaged foods, including ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, cereals, breakfast bars, cake ...
25/4/2013
When you go to the grocery store and you buy a bag of chips, a chocolate bar, crackers, ice-cream, doughnuts, frozen snacks or other candy, you may see a label on the products saying ‘RSPO Certified Sustainable
Palm Oil’ or ‘Green
Palm ...
25/4/2013
It always amazes me how the actions – or rather inaction – of high-level meetings in far-off cities can so seriously impact forests in my own country.
Today, an organisation with the declared aim of ensuring environmentally responsible ...
11/4/2013
The UK government has officially joined an innovative new public-private initiative designed to harness the power of private sector companies to tackle deforestation around the world.
Climate Change Minister Greg Barker confirmed ...
3/4/2013
A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online debate on how increased global consumption can be balanced with sustainability. The debate asks how a rapidly growing world that is ever consuming can hope to feed everyone, and at the same ...
31/3/2013
This spring could be the most miserable one ever for those of us with allergies, and we can blame it on
climate change.
People in the Northeast, in particular, will be among the hardest hit in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and this ...
21/3/2013
Covering a global industry like automotive is air travel dependent.
I won't go into the awful details, but my annual carbon footprint is alarming. British Airways estimates in-flight carbon dioxide emission of a 10th of a kilogram per ...
14/3/2013
Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is close to accepting a proposal to open 1.2 million hectares of forest in Aceh for mining, logging, and
palm oil production, reports the Aceh Post.
In an article posted Wednesday, Tgk. Anwar, the ...
13/3/2013
Every time I meet someone and let them know that I work for Greenpeace they usually picture me with a helmet on my head, hanging from a rope or under the pressure of a water hydrant in the middle of the ocean. And every time I arrange a meeting ...
10/3/2013
The flight from Quito to Coca, a small
oil town in the Ecuadorian Amazon, takes off a couple of hours late, so we don't reach Coca until around noon. Then we have to take a helicopter up the Napo river to reach Añangu, in the heart of Yasuni, the ...
1/3/2013
Nature underpins global wealth creation. The renewable flow of goods and services provided by the earth's ecosystems buttress our economy and yield benefits for business. But this stock of ecosystems -- also known as "natural capital' -- is ...
9/2/2013
Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat ...
9/2/2013
A couple decades ago just prior to my postgraduate studies at The University of Melbourne I had the privilege of visiting an Indonesian
rainforest. I encourage everyone to spend one night in a tropical
rainforest; its rich array and cacophony of ...
5/2/2013
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on ...
4/2/2013
One of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies said it would stop using timber from Indonesia's natural forests and only use trees from plantations in a drive that an environmental group said may be a milestone if the company keeps its ...
28/1/2013
In Indonesia, the name for the island of Borneo is Kalimantan. It is the third largest island in the world, renowned for its lush tropical
rainforests, one of only two strongholds for the intelligent, endangered orangutan.
While ...
27/1/2013
In the 1980's and 1990's more timber was removed from the
rainforests Borneo than from all of Africa and South America combined. This tragic loss of habitat, with its attendant loss of wildlife and indigenous cultures, has gone largely ...
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 ...
10/1/2013
Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published last year, does just that.
"It has ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical
rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
22/12/2012
What does one do with an industry that is highly profitable and promising for rural development, yet at the same time climatically culpable due to its association with deforestation?
Put it where it belongs, says the World Resources ...
6/12/2012
Like plastic bags, coal, and SUVs, beef has few friends in the environmental community. Most environmentalists would point to beef -- in particular, beef cattle that spend their final days in confined feedlots -- as being responsible for an array ...
28/11/2012
The European Commission has approved
palm oil-based biodiesel for the renewable fuels standard provided it is certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable
Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets social and environmental criteria for
palm oil ...
12/11/2012
Norway's $650 billion sovereign wealth fund will ask companies in which it invests to disclose their impacts on tropical forests, as part of its effort to reduce deforestation, reports Reuters. The move could usher in broader reporting on the ...