Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Green Assembly
PHILIPPINES (Southeast Asia)
CO2 Emissions p.capita (tonnes) UN
World Ranking CO2 Emissions (p.capita) UN
EPI World Ranking Climate Change
TI World Ranking Corruption
TI Asia Ranking Corruption
Ratified Kyoto Protocol (year)
0.97
65
37
141
18
2003
Compiled by Green Assembly. Data sourced from the UN,Transparency International,and EPI
THE PHILIPPINES is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and according to the [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THERE are now more than 50 events on our Year 2009 list of environmental conferences, exhibitions, seminars, congresses, and trade fairs worldwide. View them below, or at any time on the regular events page.
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Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ Illegal logging is continuing despite arrests in Indonesia’s West Papua province.
Greenpeace today released evidence of continued illegal logging activities in a suspended logging concession area in Kaimana, West Papua province.
In July 2008, Indonesian police arrested senior executives of two logging companies, PT Kaltim Hutama and PT Centrico, for violating local Forestry Law by [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ We are always hearing about CO2 emissions, and how many tonnes of CO2 a coal-fired power plant emits, and so on, but have you ever wondered what 1 tonne of CO2 actually looks like?
Well of course, being a gas, CO2 doesn’t actually look like anything, it’s invisible. But if you had 1 tonne [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ Indonesia’s government-owned Aneka Tambang (Antam) mining company is planning to construct a US$360 million 150 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Sulawesi.
Clearance of the site near its near its nickel mine in Pomalaa has been started and construction will begin as soon as a partner has been found, the company’s recently appointed new president, [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ Far from moderating or halting deforestation, Indonesia is accelerating the pace of destruction, a new report said.
Greenpeace said on Friday it has discovered “fresh evidence of massive conversion of Papua’s intact ancient forest for palm oil plantation in the Lereh area of Jayapura district”.
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ Illegal logging in Isabela, the second biggest province of the Philippines, is out of control, according to the province’s governor.
Grace Padaca told reporters she had just learned that 11 million board feet of logs have been sawn from illegally felled timber in the province’s Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park.
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Green Assembly
KUALA LUMPUR ~ Indonesia may have overtaken Malaysia as the world’s leading producer of palm oil, but Malaysia remains the biggest exporter, biggest dealer, and biggest culprit, an NGO said yesterday.
“As the connection between oil palm and climate change becomes more widely known, Malaysia is clearly trying to distance itself from being the world’s [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations for profit in Indonesia is having a “catastrophic effect” on global climate, Greenpeace said yesterday.
The campaign group accused Indonesia of allowing “rampant destruction” of ancient forest, for palm oil, logging and other industry expansion.
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ The Philippines Department of Environment is recruiting law students who are being trained to prosecute violators of environmental law in the country’s 117 green courts.
“The recruitment of law students to assist in prosecuting environmental criminals is now underway through the Alliance of Law Students of the Philippines (ALSP),” the country’s environment and natural [...]
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