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  • Q+A: Indonesia torn between forests, expanding oil palm
    Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Thomson Reuters - Online

    Niluksi Koswanage and Sunanda Creagh YOGYAKARTA Indonesia (Reuters) - When Indonesia last week secured its largest climate change funding of $1 billion from Norway, the Southeast Asian nation spelt out plans to revoke existing forestry licenses he
  • Indonesian president defends expansion of palm oil plantation
    Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Xinhua News Agency

    JAKARTA, Jun 03, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Thursday that the expansion of palm oil plantation in the country would not destroy environment. Earlier, European campaigners said the
  • Palm Oil?s Promotion as Diesel Alternative Draws Fire
    Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: New York Times - Online

    LONDON Ubiquitous in products from cookies to cosmetics, and increasingly in European fuel tanks, too, palm oil is driving the destruction of some of Southeast Asias last tracts of untouched rainforest and leading to huge emissions of gases that spur
  • The Link Between Palm Oil and Paper ? How palm oil sourcing impacts the market for certified fiber papers
    Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Target Marketing

    ? Presented By: Target Marketing & Printing Impressions ? Sponsored By: NewPage Corporation ? Speakers: Craig Hanson, Director of People & Ecosystems Program, World Resources Institute; Amber S. Garwood, Vice President, Communications and Gover
  • Happy News: Indonesia Won?t Slash-and-Burn Forests for Next 2 Years | 80beats
    Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Discover

    Indonesia, because it?s an archipelago, might not look like it has a lot of land area. But it?s home to the third largest forest area of any country, and has half the tropical peatlands in the entire world. These forested lands are home to many endan
  • How an ingredient found in everything from chocolate to chips is causing massive environmental destruction
    Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Illegal Logging

    The production of palm oil, the common ingredient in an astounding number of products, is causing deforestation, global warming emissions and a loss of biodiversity. The aisles of any American grocery store, whether it's a big-box behemoth or a cr
  • Indonesia won't revoke palm oil licences
    Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Business Times - Online

    YOGYAKARTA: Indonesia won't revoke existing forestry licences for palm oil firms as part of a deal with Norway to preserve rain forests, a government minister and industry official said yesterday. Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa told reporter
  • Indonesia says degraded land key fo...
    Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Edge, The

    YOGYAKARTA (Indonesia): Indonesia's palm oil industry can grow via acquisitions of six million hectares of degraded land across the archipelago, a government official said on Tuesday, June 1, in a bid to allay concerns of slowing expansion. Plante
  • Indonesia to revoke palm oil concession licenses under forest deal
    Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400
    Outlet: Mongabay.com

    Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licenses to cut down natural forests under the billion dollar deal climate deal signed with Norway last week, reports Reuters. Agus Purnomo, head of the secretariat of Indonesia's National Climate Change Cou
  • Norway to provide Indonesia with $1 billion to protest rainforests - Mongabay.com
    Wed, 19 May 2010 10:07:00 -0400
    Outlet: http://news.mongabay.com/

    Norway to provide Indonesia with $1 billion to protest rainforests Mongabay.com ... emissions result from deforestation and degradation of carbon-rich ecosystems like peatlands, acccording to data from the World Resources Institute. ... and more »

 


Updates

October 16th, 2009
In February, NewPage and the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched a joint initiative called Project POTICO (Palm Oil, Timber, Carbon Offsets) to preserve endangered virgin rainforests in Indonesia...read more »


 

     
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