Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Indonesia’s president is reneging on the promise he made to halve his country’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by 2009, environmentalists said today.
At the July 2008 Hokkaido G8 meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a commitment to reduce his country’s greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by 50 percent within 18 months.
“Six months [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Indonesia’s agriculture minister Mr Anton Apriyantono said international demands for a moratorium on the country’s drive to expand oil palm plantations, is beyond the control of his government.
Speaking at the opening of the annual meeting of the recently discredited Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in Bali, Apriyantono said any moratorium, including the one [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ The body set up to certify “sustainable” palm-oil production in Malaysia and Indonesia is completely ignoring greenhouse gas emissions in its certification procedure, according to a report issued today.
In a damning statement, Wetlands International says that palm oil shipped to Europe by members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is far [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Malaysian palm oil is finding its way into the fuel tanks of automobiles and other road vehicles in Europe despite concerns about its carbon balance and the rainforest being destroyed to produce it.
According to a new report by Friends of the Earth international, claims by the UK’s Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) that Malaysian [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~The Sarawak Oil Palms Bhd (SOPB) is joining with one of its major shareholders - Pelita Holdings Sdn Bhd - to develop oil palm plantations covering a massive swathe of forested area of Sarawak in eastern Malaysia.
According to an SOPB statement issued on 16 September, some 14,500 hectares in the Sri Aman district [...]
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