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• in Green
  Another Confusing Report for Carbon Emissions
  Who is right or wrong when it comes to reporting carbon emissions?
  by breetreport / on Nov 5, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “deforestation”

• Computer model predicts future deforestation in Congo Basin rainforest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, November 21 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a computer model that predicts future changes in the world’s forests, which has forecasted deforestation in the Congo Basin rainforest in the future.Forest management is expected to be a key point of discussion at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen ...
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• Guyana allowed to increase deforestation under Norway deal!

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 132
  whitey is a fraud. we don’t need to tell you that…and we’re sure the wood harvested from this new zone will carry a premium on the market…just like the fraud going on at Iwokrama an d they call it sustainable forestry Times Online : Guyana’s forests have been far less logged than in many tropical ...
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• Split Carbon Costs of Deforestation Between Producers & Consumers to Slow Felling Forests

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  Its probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason carbon emissions in developing nations are rapidly rising is partially because manufacturing of goods for export to the developed world. In fact in China at least one-third of total emissions and about 50% of emissions growth ...
  16 hours ago

• $36 Billion Rainforest Protection Plan Agreed to by 35 Nations - Now Who Will Pay For It...?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  photo: flickrfavorites . A group of 35 nations have agreed to a plan that aims to reduce global deforestation by 25% by 2015, The Guardian reports. The price tag for it all could run as high as $36 billion over the next five years. Now who will pay for it all?... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  18 hours ago

• U.S. pledges $275M to rainforest conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The U.S. pledged $275 million to efforts to reduce deforestation in developing countries, reports Reuters.
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• Guyana: the inside story of a REDD deal

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 115
  By Daniel Nelson | OneWorld UK | 20 November 2009 REDD – the forest component of the international negotiations to curb carbon emissions and climate change – has taken a stride forward with a deal between Guyana and Norway. And Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo also took a personal stride forward in ...
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• Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the worlds highest carbon emitter, 50 percent of its growth over the last year was ...
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• Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Ministers statements

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  On October 19th, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysias national poverty line, according to a story in the Malaysian Insider . But now representatives of the workers are saying Dompok lied.
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• 2020 Greenpeace Calls For End Of Deforestation--1 Million Hectares Destroyed Monthly

  
  BASIL & SPICE--LIVING GREEN! — Authority: 132
    Jakarta , Indonesia — Greenpeace welcomed today’s decision by Indonesia’s Forest Minister, Zulkifli Hasan, to temporarily stop paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) from destroying the carbon-rich forest peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula, Sumatra, pending a ...
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• Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Companys License to Review Environmental Record

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  The Kampar Peninsula is the last large intact area of pear swamp forest in Riau, Indonesia with some of the deepest peat (read: most stored carbon). Photo: Greenpeace. Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists and two journalists over deforestation in the past week (boo!) but it also just suspended ...
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• Indonesia Scores One For Press Repression & Environmental Destruction - Reporters, Activists Deported

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  The sort of destruction trying to be prevented... photo: Greenpeace. Seems the government of Indonesia didnt much like Greenpeace activists trying to disrupt the continued destruction of rainforest as its converted into palm oil plantations . Nor did they appreciate foreign journalists documen... Read the full ...
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• REDD may increase the cost of conservation of non-forest ecosystems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Policy-makers designing a climate change mitigation mechanism that will reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) arent doing enough to ensure that the scheme protects biodiversity outside carbon-dense ecosystems, argues an editorial published in Current Biology by a group of scientists.
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• Indonesian government suspends license of logging company in controversial forest area

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The Indonesian government today temporarily suspended the license of Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) for developing an area of forest and peatland in Sumatra pending a review of the companys permits, reports Greenpeace.
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• Ghost Trees bring deforestation to central London

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  An installation featuring giant tropical tree stumps in Trafalgar square is designed to symbolise threatened rainforest trees throughout the world. From the Ecologist , part of the Guardian Environment Network Whether you perceive them as beautiful sculptural objects or a scene of devastation, giant tree stumps ...
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• Video - Princes Rainforest Project - Prepare for Crash Landing!

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 128
  "This clip explains what is happening to the planet as a result of rainforest deforestation. Using images and graphics this film explains the importance of the forests and why we must stop destroying them before its too late. "
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• Gibson Guitar under federal investigation for use of illegal rainforest timber from Madagascar

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided Gibson Guitars factory Tuesday afternoon, due to concerns that the company had been using illegally harvested wood from Madagascar, reports the Nashville Post .
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• Kenya evicts thousands of forest squatters in attempt to save Rift valley

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Tourism, tea and energy industries threatened after a quarter of huge Mau forest destroyed in 20 years Several thousand people who had settled illegally in Kenyas most important forest have left their homes at the beginning of an eviction plan designed to end rampant environmental degradation in the Rift valley. ...
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• Indonesia Deporting 2 More Climate Activists, 2 Reporters

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 628
  By Daniel Kessler On Nov. 16, two Greenpeace activists from Germany and Italy and two members of the press from India and Italy, all of whom were traveling on valid business and journalist visas, were picked up and detained by Indonesian police. They were on their way to meet the villagers of Teluk Meranti, who ...
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• Double Helix Tracking Technologies Uses DNA to Track Timber, Fight Illegal Logging

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 658
  Think of it as CSI for the timber industry.Singapore-based Double Helix Tracking Technologies (DHTT) uses DNA tests to verify the origins of timber. Essentially, it’s the same technology that’s used in forensics and paternity testing –only DHTT has adapted it specifically for wood.“What we’ve done is to ...
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• Gangsters Go Green! Mafia Tied to Fraudulent Italian Wind Farms - Madagascar Timber Mafia Thriving

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  photo: Chiara Marra via flickr. There have been an increasing number of stories coming to light detailing how organized crime syndicates around the world have been getting their dirty little fingers into the green world. The latest: 1) Italian police have arrested two businessmen on fraud charges, linking them ...
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