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Mexico’s human rights record raises questions for California REDD policy
Friends of the Earth Mexico and Friends of the Earth U.S. sent a letter to California officials yesterday, urging them to forego any joint agreement with Mexico on climate change, carbon trading and…
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Exploitation and Empty Promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian Land Grab
Nigeria is a key frontier country for palm oil expansion. Since 2010, Wilmar International has acquired thirty-thousand of hectares of land for palm oil plantations in southeastern Nigeria, and the co…
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Up in Smoke: Failures in Wilmar’s Promise to Clean Up the Palm Oil Business
This report shows that global palm oil companies Bumitama Agri and Wilmar International, backed by major U.S. and European investors, have created conditions that have allowed Indonesia’s devastatin…
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The Great REDD Gamble
This alternative approach has already been proposed to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by the Bolivian government on the basis of the conclusions of the 2010 World People’s Co…
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Continuing to Exploit and Deforest: Wilmar’s Ongoing Abuses
Wilmar International is one of the largest palm oil companies in the world, and the largest palm oil refiner in Malaysia and Indonesia
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Land Grabbing, Palm Oil & Violence in Honduras
The case of Grupo Dinant
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The Green Economy, Forest Peoples and Territories
Rights violations in the state of Acre
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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
Even as policies guiding timber exports fail to curtail deforestation, the world’s energy economy is demanding increased burning of biomass — meaning forests.
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Chiapas cancels ‘disastrous’ forest plan linked to Calif. cap-and-trade program
The state government of Chiapas has cancelled a controversial forest protection plan that critics said failed to address the root causes of deforestation and could endanger the lives and livelihoods o…
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California REDD: A False Solution
Among environmental advocates, and especially forest defenders, REDD can be a complicated and divisive issue; among those a little beyond the inner circles of environmental advocacy, it’s downright…