Posted on November 25th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has quashed a decision granting logging rights over the country’s huge 800,000 hectare Kamula Doso virgin forest area to Rimbunan Hijau (RH) in a court case brought by the PNG Eco-Forestry Forum.
In a major victory for good governance and for the environmental movement of Papua New Guinea (PNG), [...]
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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 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
PARIS ~ A former slave who took the government of Niger to court for failing to enforce its own anti-slavery laws has set a precedent that could see similar cases being brought to court by climate-change activists.
Hadijatou Mani, 24, won her case on Monday in what campaigners said was an historic judgement that was reported by [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Green Assembly
HANOI ~ Three of Asia’s most rapidly deforesting countries - Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam - have asked the United Nations for assistance in combating deforestation.
Bolivia, Congo, Panama, Paraguay, Tanzania, and Zambia have also expressed formal interest in receiving assistance through a new initiative called the UN-Redd Programme.
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Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
TRANSPARENCY International’s 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index was launched in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, despite objections by local politicians and business people.
Papua New Guinea is ranked 151 out of 180 countries surveyed worldwide with a score of 2.0 , the same as last year, indicating that levels of corruption have not changed.
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
JAKARTA ~ The government of Papua New Guinea is turning a blind eye on logging companies which are stealing resources from and abusing local people, says a Greenpeace report.
The report follows visits over a period of two weeks to villages in two provinces of Papua New Guinea (PNG) currently being logged by the notorious Turama [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Green Assembly
CLAIMS made by Greenpeace that illegal logging is rife in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have been dismissed as untrue by the island’s forestry association.
In a local newspaper report the PNG Forest Industry Association said Greenpeace had made “a series of claims over the past week which perpetuate(s) untruths about the forestry industry in the country.”
According [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Green Assembly
KUALA LUMPUR ~ In a new move to boost Papua New Guinea’s contribution to global warming and climate change, the country’s Morobe provincial government has given Malaysian investors the green light for a major oil palm plantation development.
Morobe governor Luther Wenge and the country’s minister for health, Sasa Zibe, said on Thursday that they had [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Logging companies operating in Papua New Guinea allegedly paid US$67 million into a government minister’s private bank account in Singapore, says a statement from Greenpeace.
“The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a very poor forest-management record, wrapped in accusations of corruption and misappropriation of funds,” said the statement.
“If PNG is seeking carbon [...]
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