The World Bank has released a report encouraging the Indonesian government to create vast timber plantations that would damage local ecosystems and livelihood, in order to encourage economic growth.
… World Bank: Deforestation Good for Growth 22nd February 2007 News Deforestation World Bank Friends Of The Earth Indonesia Deforestation World Bank World Bank Diversity …
A little-reported legal battle in Italy between paper company Pigna and eco-activists from Terra! is leading to fears that it may open the way for big companies to muzzle legitimate environmental protests. Mandy Haggith reports
… Mandy Haggith | 30th March 2011 News Deforestation APP Activism Indonesian Forests … stating that Pigna’s products come from deforestation, and decided that the banner was … environmentalists, the link between APP and deforestation is well proven , and Terra!’s …
Deforestation of the Amazon is set to rise for the first time in four years, Brazilian officials have admitted this week.
… set to rise 17th January 2008 News Rainforest DeforestationDeforestation Natural World Politics And Economics News web pic 2_182.jpg Deforestation of the Amazon is set to rise for …
A new U.N. led scheme called "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation" (RED) is due to be announced later this year that aims to make it rewarding for countries to preserve their forests rather than cut them down.
… to preserve forests 4th July 2007 News RED Deforestation Carbon Trading Emissions Climate … led scheme called "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation" (RED) is due to be announced … than cut them down. According to the U.N. deforestation contributes about 20% of …
The economic troubles in Argentina have been widely reported around the world. The impoverishment of the middle classes and the Argentines’ growing cynicism about their politicians have been extensively written up. Less well covered in the news has been the effects of the crisis on Argentina’s very poorest – people who live far from the eye of city-based reporters, the country’s original inhabitants, a people despised and vilified as ‘savages’ by the settler population.
… 2003 News Tribal Protest Indigneous People Deforestation Forests Indigenous Peoples … lands on which they live: extensive clear-cut deforestation carried out on behalf of … are now being bulldozed and reduced to ashes. Deforestation is a brutal act of machismo: …
Introduction of measures to protect rainforests and ecosystems in Costa Rica and Thailand over the past 40 years have improved the livelihoods of the local population
… get REDD projects (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) up and … Atlantic Rising: Liberia faces choice between deforestation and REDD If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon …
The world’s forests are natural carbon ‘sinks’ that remove and store atmospheric CO2. So why, in the name of saving the earth, asks Renton Righelato, are we cutting down these precious resources to make way for fuel crops?
The trial of the ex-Liberian President - accused of purchasing arms with funds from the illegal timber and diamond trade - could lead to a wave of prosecutions using the 'pillage' theory
… | 23rd April 2012 News Politics And Economics Deforestation Pillage International Law …
In his final State of the Union address, George Bush announced his support for the adoption of biofuels on a massive scale. But is the plan such a good idea? By Pat Thomas
… fuel, now find themselves using words like ‘deforestation’ and ‘sustainable farming’ and … gas emissions come not from cars but from deforestation. In the articles that follow, …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… than 70 per cent. In Indonesia, the rate of deforestation has increased to two million … was responsible for 87 per cent of deforestation between 1985 and 2000. The … campaigners call biofuel made from oil palm, ‘deforestation diesel’. On the other side of …
Consumers could unwittingly buy rings or other jewellery linked to serious human rights abuses after Kimberley Process fails to prevent the sale of diamonds from Robert Mugabe's Marange diamond fields
… UN-backed coal power station linked to deforestation and land grabbing An Ecologist …
‘Immortal’ and created solely to amass ever larger amounts of wealth, limited-liability corporations institutionalise dissatisfaction. They are, Derrick Jensen writes, the economic manifestation of the Buddhist notion of ‘hungry ghosts’ – spirits that roam the earth, always eating, never sated.
Corporate power wielded through limited liability status Derrick Jensen | 20th March 2001 News Limited Liability Corporations Corporation Corpo Human Rights Violations Companies Politics And …
How do the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour and the Green Party measure up on their environmental manifesto pledges? Here's the definitive list...
… Argue for international target of zero net deforestation by 2020. Law making it illegal … to less industrialised countries to halt deforestation Badger cull in areas of high and …
HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is helping the Malaysian logging giant Samling list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, despite HSBC's claim to be the "first green bank".
… Bank' Aids Logging Giant 6th March 2007 News Deforestation HSBC Samling FSC Forestry …
The world fervour for biofuels continues to grow at an alarming pace. In this comprehensive special report, the Ecologist examines the facts, fictions and fabrications behind this ballooning industry. The results are worrying...
… Biofuel Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Deforestation Climate Change Gm Products UK US …
Described as a ‘mosquito inside a tent’,
Rainforest Action Network are forcing corporate
America to change its destructive practices.
Nicola Graydon meets this inspiring group of activists
… Warming Climate Change Campaigns US Campaigns Deforestation Climate Change Food And Farming …
It’s the battle of the century. In one corner, the Economy – big, bloated, greedy and growing. In the other, the planet Earth – fragile, finite and fighting back.
… Justice Green Lifestyle Community Consumerism Deforestation UK Lessons From Nature Politics …
Logging, mining and agriculture are opening up Guinea-Bissau's once intact forests to the ravages of the bush-meat trade, an Ecologist investigation finds
The birthplace of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast mining project, opening a rift in a cash-strapped society
The heavy price of Greek gold Jim Wickens | 25th July 2013 News Gold Mining Ecologist Film Unit News Politics And Economics greekgold.jpg The birthplace of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast …
Criminal gangs are increasingly smuggling Russian timber into China for manufacture into baby cribs, picture frames and toilet seats sold in the west. Those trying to thwart them face violence and corruption. Sebastian Strangio reports from Vladivostok
In a remarkable and harrowing dispatch from Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin reports how logging, mining and agriculture are opening up the country's once intact forests to the ravages of the growing bush-meat trade, threatening some of the country's most enigmatic monkey species
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection.
… change and funding fossil fuel projects and deforestation; and that the organisation is …