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    Greenpeace Aligns With ALP On Illegal Logging

    09/14/2010 /

    As the political game-play of the Australian Federal Election goes on, environmental policy issues, such as illegal logging, will no doubt be caught up in the process. Earlier this month, in a pre-election promise, Australian Forests Minister Tony Burke announced that Australia’s reinstalled Labor Government will press ahead with a policy on illegal logging that will potentially have a negative impact on its immediate neighbours. Sitting next to him during the announcement was Greenpeace Australia CEO, Linda Selvey. According to the ALP’s policy, the new Gillard government will “introduce tough new legislation making it an offence to import any timber products into Australia that have not been legally harvested.” Reports…

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    Latvians turn forests into dumps

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    09/18/2023
    Peter Wohlleben has been a bestselling author since "The Secret Life of Trees"

    How Peter Wohlleben wants to save the forest

    10/05/2022
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    Donor Driven REDD – Trouble Brewing

    09/05/2010 /

    Despite a lack of agreement in UNFCCC negotiations on the role of deforestation in any new climate change accord or on any system of global trading of carbon credits or to endorse the concept of REDD (and with negotiators predicting no change in the negotiating deadlock at the Cancun UNFCCC meeting in Mexico in December), developed country donors nevertheless are encouraging a number of developing countries to adopt strategies that would see them rewarded for halting deforestation. Twenty-seven developed and developing nations (mostly members of the Rainforest Nations Alliance chaired by PNG) are working on a “REDD+ Partnership” for this purpose. The jewel in the crown for the Partnership is…

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    Nova Scotia is transitioning to a novel forestry approach

    08/15/2023
    ecology and economy in the management of our forests

    How to reconcile ecology and economy in the management of our forests?

    01/24/2023
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    GUINEA: Government rehabilitates logging, despite deforestation

    10/20/2022
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    Challenge To Amendments To PNG’s Environment Act Threatens PNG’s Sovereign Risk Rating

    09/05/2010 /

    In May, PNG’s parliament pushed through a series of amendments to the Environment Act. The amendments were made in response to a Court decision that possibly renders environmental permits for resource projects – such as mining or forestry projects – invalid and unenforceable. This is part of a continuing campaign by NGOs opposed to forestry and mining projects to use loopholes in PNG laws to obstruct projects. Current targets are forestry and mining projects in PNG. The amendments to the Environment Act attempt to sidestep this possibility by giving new discretionary powers to the Secretary of the Department of Conservation to rule on compliance with the PNG law of environmental…

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    11/15/2010
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    Elections in Brazil as a chance to save the Amazon

    Elections in Brazil as a chance to save the Amazon. And its existence is crucial for all of us

    11/09/2022
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    Fraser Institute Mixed Rating For PNG

    09/05/2010 /

    The biannual survey of mining executives by Canada’s respected Fraser Institute rates Papua New Guinea as the fourth-worst place to invest in resource projects because of land-tenure disputes. PNG ranks behind only Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Canada’s Northwest Territories in the survey based on this criterion. PNG also ranks as the fourth-worst place to invest based on security issues, behind Colombia, the Philippines and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However PNG rated well for environment regulations not adversely generating investment uncertainty. This may change, however, given the current legal cases surrounding Ramu Nico’s operations (see above). Interestingly enough, the least friendly place for investment based on environmental regulations is California, with…

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    Leave dead leaves in place to promote biodiversity and CO2 storage

    Leave dead leaves in place to promote biodiversity and CO2 storage

    11/17/2022
    Peter Wohlleben has been a bestselling author since "The Secret Life of Trees"

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    10/05/2022
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    WRI Backtracks On Forest Emissions

    09/05/2010 /

    Emissions from deforestation and land-use change are now at 12.2 per cent, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI) which had previously made estimates that were more than 17 per cent. The original 17 per cent figure – which was widely disseminated by the Stern Review and consequently revised upwards to 20 per cent by Greenpeace – was based on work by Richard Houghton of the Woods Hole Research Centre. Houghton’s estimates of carbon flux were themselves based on deforestation rates from the FAO until 2000. With the figures under increasing scrutiny from scholars, particularly Guido Van der Werf from the University of Amsterdam, Houghton issued revised figures based on…

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    12/09/2022
    Australia the new Prime Minister promises a pro-climate shift

    Australia: the new Prime Minister promises a pro-climate shift

    06/27/2022

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    10/21/2022
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    Unauthorised PNG Carbon Credit Project Widely Criticized

    09/05/2010 /

    PNG’s climate change tsar and large group of landowners have strenuously objected to proposed forest carbon conservation projects in Papua New Guinea. The proposed projects are in Kamula Doso in Western Province and April Salumei in East Sepik. The Kamula Doso project is being backed by Australian businessman Kirk Roberts. Mr Roberts came under media scrutiny in 2009 following the issuance of allegedly fake ‘forest-carbon certificates’ from PNG’s climate change office. The new projects were to be certified by the Community Carbon Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), an arm of US-based NGO Conservation International. CCBA’s website called for stakeholder comments on the proposed projects. Landowners have responded angrily to the project, alleging…

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    07/12/2010
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    The Crucial Importance of Preserving the Congo Basin Forest for Our Planet

    04/11/2023

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