Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Indonesia, currently third after China and USA in the CO2 emission league table, could become the world’s worst unless something is done to stem the country’s pursuit of wealth through logging and palm-oil cultivation.
Responding to the declaration by Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last week that his state would send financial aid to keep [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Greenpeace is calling upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to take immediate action against member companies that are destroying Indonesia’s forests and peatlands.
Greenpeace research shows that the “Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO), which opens its annual shindig in Bali today, is little more than greenwash, the organisation said in a [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE – Thirty-one food, cosmetic and consumer goods companies – and one palm-oil supplier – have signed a Rainforest Action Network (Ran) pledge to support a moratorium on the expansion of palm-oil plantations into tropical forests.
But many others, including major international corporations such as Cadbury, Campbell Soup, Chanel, Elizabeth Arden, Hershey, Kellogg’s, Kraft, L’Oreal, [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Greenpeace has re-iterated its call for urgent action to protect forests in order to save the global climate after gathering new evidence of the mounting threat to forests in the provinces of Papua and Riau (Indonesia).
Greenpeace is urging the government of Indonesia in Jakarta to appreciate and to provide immediate legal support to [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE more we learn about climate change the clearer it becomes that CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions are the single most important factor influencing global warming.
It doesn’t really matter which country the CO2 is released from, it all finds its way into the upper atmosphere.
Many human activities release CO2 into the atmosphere - transport, cement production, [...]
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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 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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